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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...
The Hunley submarine / Wikimedia Commons War makes governments willing to try nearly anything, no matter how...
Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut...
Cleopatra, being an account of the fall and vengeance of Harmachis, the royal Egyptian, as set forth...
Silbury Hill Neolithic mound. It stands 30 metres high and 160 metres wide, and comprises half a...
Cereal in West Kennet (Wiltshire, United Kingdom). Copyright © Victor Jimenez Jaimez 2014 – Creative Commons Attribution...
Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square in 1908 / Public Domain History is messy. And...
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913 Demanding the right to vote...
Augusts as Rome’s Pontifex Maximus (High Priest) / Wikimedia Commons Every citizen of Rome became his client...
The assassination of Julius Caesar, painted by William Holmes Sullivan, c. 1888 / Wikimedia Commons Dissatisfied Republicans...
Mysia Islands off Troas, Tenedos. Circa 100-70 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 16.27 g 12). / Photo by Exekias,...
The historical emergence and use of money is an important question. By Dr. Alexander W. Salter /...
People fleeing on bullock carts as mass migration happened during the partition. AP Photo At midnight on...
The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wikimedia...
One of the greatest treasures of Cambridge University Library is a Buddhist manuscript that was produced in...
Dr. Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art at Leang Lompoa...
Men stand in line outside a depression soup kitchen, 1931 / Public Domain Far less has been...
Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank, Vienna, 1904-06 and 1910-12 “What is impractical can never be beautiful.” –...
A Bolivian donkey of the 1850s. From Herndon and Gibbon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon...
Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Rhetoric was a much-valued skill...
Floats for the Kanda Festival, 1843 / Photo by Daderot, Edo-Tokyo Museum, Wikimedia Commons Looking at Japan’s...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right. Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress An executive...
Horace Greeley, between about 1860 and 1865. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration It’s easy to think...
Early desire to remove George Washington as the Continental Army’s Commander-in-Chief. By Dr. John Buescher Historian You...
Illustration of The Liberty Tree in Boston. From A History of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, from...