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Founders did not intend on keeping a standing army beyond the War of Independence. By Dr. Christopher H....
Family members pray in front of a Buddhist statue near the cave where 12 boys and their...
Anglo-Saxon burial site at the Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. / Photo by Rexfeatures What is the source...
The American River Ganges, Harper’s Weekly, September 1871 by Thomas Nast. The original image of Nast’s most...
Procession de la Ligue 1590 Carnavalet. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Desmond M. Clarke / 01.16.2016 Late Professor...
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte III Rarely in history has a country so blindly, maliciously and relentlessly turned against...
Hagia Sophia / Photo by Arild Vågen, Wikimedia Commons It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of...
The Great Wall of China, built 221 BCE-1664 CE. / Photo by Emily Mark, Creative Commons Mark of...
Image via learnerlog.org, Creative Commons Out of Africa and gradually stretching around the globe. By Emma Groeneveld...
1920s KKK March in Washington / Public Domain Although not the only white terrorist organization—there are an...
By Dr. Gabrielle Chapman / 06.23.2015 Associate Dean, Graduate School Syracuse University In September 1955 at the...
Members of 1st Recon, Vietnam, ca. 1967 / Wikimedia Commons The war in Vietnam has been debated...
Tirana sign in Taiwan Square. (Photo by Aleksej Demjanski) Putting a corrupt past behind them. By Christopher...
White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece The Ottoman Empire captured Thessaloniki in 1430 and ruled it until 1912. ...
Villa at Battle of Torreón / Wikimedia Commons While his violence and ambition prevented his from being...
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...