The head of the suffragist parade in Washington, 1913. (Wikimedia Commons) They fought for the right to vote,...
History
Did the Roman arenas of political conflict support the common good? Trey Ratcliff/flickr, Creative Commons History offers countless examples...
Teotihuacan, 300 BCE Teotihuacan, located in the Basin of Central Mexico, was the largest, most influential, and...
A mask of jadeite from the Olmec civilization of the Gulf coast, Mesoamerica, 900-500 BCE. Provenance: Rio Pesquero, Mexico....
A portion of the 2nd century BCE Basilica of the Roman town of Pompeii, the oldest surviving example of such...
Polychrome relief of Kagemni in his own mastaba, Saqqara, Egypt. Kagemni was a vizier of pharaohs Djedkare Isesi...
A model of the agora of Athens at its maximum extension during the 2nd century CE. (Agora Museum, Athens) / Photo...
A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 – 490 BC). / Photo...
Detail from an image showing fireworks in Hamburg to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Franz I. Stephan...
Henry Morton Stanley as pictured in the frontispiece to Volume 1 of his In Darkest Africa (1890) – Internet Archive...
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, fresco, 23′ wide (San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy)...
By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor of History The Graduate Center City University of...
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. By Dr. Peter Harrison...
Detail of the central embroidery work of a woman’s summer robe, c1875–1900. / Wikimedia Commons In China, as...
Cleanup crew search for radioactive debris. U.S. Air Force , CC BY By Dr. Timothy J. Jorgensen / 01.17.2018 Director,...
Three Girls, 1890, photographer unknown. Albumen print. Pierre de Gigord Collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire...
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...