Three Girls, 1890, photographer unknown. Albumen print. Pierre de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire...
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View of Toledo, Spain with the Samuel Halevi Abulafia synagogue at the center and the Monastery of...
Pitcher (Oinochoe) in the Form of the Head of an African, about 510 B.C., attributed to Class...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 06.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Pyramids of the Old Kingdom The...
He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. By John Reeves / 06.24.2018...
Edward Bernays applied the principles of propaganda to marketing. Bruce Henschel/Flickr While no single person can claim exclusive...
Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler / Wikimedia Commons Many untrue facts about Hitler have been surprisingly resilient....
Making of a demagogue. Wikimedia The Nazi fuhrer’s story about his ‘resurrection’ in 1918 is an important lesson for today. By Dr. Thomas...
Mimoyecques, in Calais, where Hitler built his supergun. Prioryman Hitler’s plan for a weapon that would outgun the allies was...
Godwin’s Law? Bring it on. EPA/Erik S Lesser Carl Schmitt rejected the Nazis, but his political philosophy paved the...
A young Adolf Hitler cheering the rhetoric World War I. How the Great War spawned a tyrant....
Photos by Heinrich Hoffmann / German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons The key events in Hitler’s life,...
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867 / Library of Congress By Dr. Allen Carl Guelzo / 02.04.2018...
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes. By Dr. Catherine...
Giotto’s Last Judgment in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, inspired by Dante Alighieri’s vision of heaven and...
The stuff of legend. Shutterstock Norse mythology is having a moment as a leading author re-tells the tales for a new generation. By Dr. Carolyne Larrington /...
Walter Frentz photographed Adolf Hitler strolling with German diplomat Walther Hewel in the Berchtesgaden Alps, near the...
Photo by Don Tormey/LA Times/Getty The problem is that people are taking her seriously. In some cases,...
Andrew Wyeth stands by a creek on his Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania property in 1964. AP Photo/Bill Ingraham, Creative...
Georg Trakl in 1910 – Wikimedia Commons To mark the 100th anniversary of the death by cocaine overdose...
San Diego Giant on display at side show In December of 1896, a group of anatomists and...
The pirate flag of Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. The flag shows a skeleton spearing a heart...
“The Ancient Wrasse”, a detail from the frontispiece to The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition) — Biodiversity Library Bernd Brunner on...
“A Group of Carnations”, a plate from Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807) — Internet Archive Bridal beds, blushing captives,...
Location of the sunken island of Cyanida / Kianida on Ptolemy’s 9th European Map (Nona Europae Tabula)...
By Dr. Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) Former Professor of Linguistics Collège de France Gift and Exchange Abstract Greek has five words...
John Brown in “The Tragic Prelude,” displayed at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. Painted by John...
By Dr. Robert Weible / 06.03.2018 Past President, National Council on Public History Retired State Historian, New...
Middle left (detail), Scenes from the Apocalypse, Paris-Oxford-London Bible moralisée, France, c. 1225-45 (The British Library, Harley MS...
Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew (detail), Second Initial Page, f.29, early 8th century (British Library) By Louisa Woodville...