Villa at Battle of Torreón / Wikimedia Commons While his violence and ambition prevented his from being...
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Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 07.06.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Introduction Geronimo (Chiricahua, Goyaałé; “One Who Yawns”; often spelled Goyathlay in...
By Jessica Jacolbe / 06.14.2018 Today in Brooklyn Heights John A. Roebling, the architect of the Brooklyn...
Leader of the North in the Civil War, orator of the Gettysburg Address, described by some as...
Homeless children. Moscow, 1930s / Institute of Modern Russia How have societies solved this basic problem? Why have...
Lakewood Plaza, outdoor living space, Long Beach, California, 1950s. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington...
Child survivors of Auschwitz are seen in this 1945 photograph. (Creative Commons) The more notorious concentration camps of the 20th century must serve as...
Until recently, the subject of childhood under slavery was almost entirely unstudied. By Dr. Steven Mintz Professor...
A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii which was buried in...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Leon Battista Alberti, Basilica of Sant’Andrea, 1472-90, Mantua (Italy) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC: BY-NC-SA 3.0) By Dr....
Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, c. 1446-51, Florence (Italy) By Christine Zappella / 08.09.2015 PhD Student in...
Coming together for a solstice feast in ancient Peru. Robert Gutierrez, Author provided How did civilization emerge from small...
Artist’s vision of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain. Mammoths were...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University Beauty and self-care has always been...
Albert Eckhout, series of eight figures, 1641, oil on canvas (The National Museum of Denmark) Documenting the...
Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, 1845 / New York Public Library By Kimberly J. Largent...
American Civil War Museum By Kimberly J. Largent Editor Charge the Cannons Publishing Growing Up at Arlington Mary...
Painting by Laurits Tuxen showing a Christian Bishop displacing an image of the pagan Slavic deities during...
East Roman Empire, 6th century CE, showing the territories of the Avars, Goths, Franks, Lombards, Saxons, Thuringians, Slavs. / Image by William R. Shepherd,...
Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
An Aztec ceremonial knife with a cedarwood handle and flint blade. The figure of the handle is covered in...
A map indicating the maximum extent of the Aztec civilization which flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE in...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes. The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
Consider two terminals of American architecture, one positive, one negative, in an epicenter of global capital flows:...
It started with a small dinner party. By Dr. Suzy Evans, J.D. / 06.29.2018 Historian and Attorney Although historians...
MALI – APRIL 01: Libraries of the desert: rediscovery and restoration of ancient Arab manuscripts in Bouj...
By Dr. Robert Davis / 02.15.2018 Professor Emeritus of History The Ohio State University In the early...