A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
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Véronique Pagnier, Stanhope Press from Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, Creative Commons Share Alike (2011). One of the...
Let us remember we are not only participating in history, but also potentially creating it. By Dale...
Feudalism can be found in a range of societies across different time periods. By Dr. Vladimir ShlapentokhProfessor...
Japanese imperial family / Wikimedia Commons The collapse of aristocratic rule ushered in a new age of...
A 15th century CE painting by Jean Fouquet depicting the Second Crusaders (1147-49 CE), led by Louis...
Pope Urban’s motives in preaching the First Crusade are unclear. By Sarah Hough Dickinson College Pope Urban’s...
Political parties thrive when they are able to manage the media and effectively promote their candidates, leaders,...
Walter Lippmann / Public Domain The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. By Dr....
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 24.4 x 343.8 cm / British Library Exploring some of the...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
History tells us that midterm elections are bad — sometimes very bad — for the party that...
Read my lips (and forehead). Wikimedia Commons Abraham Lincoln brought commercial photographers on board. By Dr. Joanna...
Police disperse protesters outside MIT’s nuclear missile laboratories, November 1969. / MIT Museum Locating Chomsky’s linguistics and...
The University of Glasgow / Photo by Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons Charlemagne realized that his empire needed...
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and...
In the mid-16th century, Elizabeth I’s government came up with a series of measures to deter “divers...
A Maitraka copper plate / Wikimedia Commons Archaeological evidence suggests that copper was first used between 8,000...
Statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser in front of the United States Treasury Building in...
Illustration of a workroom where several men use machines and tools to craft prosthetics / National Library...
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugene Delacroix, 1840 / Louvre Museum, Wikimedia Commons The...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own...
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a...
A police box is set to go up for auction / Photo by Rightmove In attempting to...
CSIRAC was originally built in Sydney by the CSIRO before being transferred to Melbourne University. Melbourne University,...
Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship on the eve of America’s entry into the First World War....
Plaza Cristobal Colon in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico / Wikimedia Commons In 1898, the Puerto Rican...
Edinburgh Castle / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Examining a microcosm of the medieval world in the...