The challenges Americans faced in the post-Civil War era extended far beyond the issue of Reconstruction and...
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A relief carving of the Egyptian god Thoth from the throne back of a seated statue of...
An exclusive title held only by the highest officials of the royal Egyptian court going back to...
Sumer, in southernmost Mesopotamia, was the first true city in the world, some time not very much...
Reconstruction of ancient life and environments is an extremely challenging problem. By Dr. William Irvin Sellers Professor,...
The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500 / Prado National Museum, Wikimedia Commons These laws...
A man places a ring on a woman’s finger. c. 1370. (British Library) The marital debt referred to...
John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in...
The Pantheon in 1836, by Jakob Alt / Albertina, Wikimedia Commons Religious worship was a public affair...
By the 3rd millennium BCE, the southern Levant was a land of small, fortified towns and villages,...
The Assumption of the Virgin Artist, by Francesco Botticini, c.1475 / Creative Commons The term henotheism continues...
Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 June 1690, by Jan van Huchtenburgh...
The Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company fought against the Portuguese Empire. Edited...
[LEFT]: ‘Police Work in the East End’ from The Graphic: This image of ‘police work in...
Heddal Stave Church (Creative Commons) These historic churches feature elaborate carvings that mix Christian and Viking symbols....
Luoyang longmen grottoes / Photo by Tgasrio, Wikimedia Commons Examining the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties....
A Muisca (Chibcha) seated gold figure on a stool (tunjo). Colombia, 10th-16th century CE. (Metropolitan Museum of...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr Ralph David Abernathy, their families, and others leading the Selma to Montgomery...
Christopher Bordenave and Sasha Rivero perform Sky Echo at the Getty An is not exclusive to sound....
A meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on board the...
A brief critical survey of the development, implications, and limitations of the Age of Commerce paradigm in...
Federated States of Micronesia. The Yap Islands can be found in the far western portion of the...
Nan Madol, 13th-17th century C.E., Pohnpei, The Federated States of Micronesia (photo: smwd0030, CC BY 2.0) Sometimes art...
Cider, water, milk, and whiskey! By Melissa Swindell / 12.06.2012 Executive Director The Wren’s Nest Practically everyone...
Wikimedia Commons Why were the Sons of Liberty not stopped by British troops? What was the outcome?...
It can be hard to fathom the society-altering impact the new printed image had when it first...
The second nun from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Second Nun, her prologue,...
Mt Etna, with Catania in the foreground / Photo by BenAveling, Wikimedia Commons Stories were used as...
The Temple to Apollo at Delphi / Photo by Greudin, Wikimedia Commons The history of ancient Greece...
A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862. Issued during the American...