Kudurru of Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur granting LAK-ti Marduk freedom from taxation for services rendered during his invasion of Elam...
History
History connects people and societies across time, revealing how past choices continue to shape the present. Read accounts and interpretations drawn from cultures around the world.
Lunch Counter Sit-in, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960 / Library of Congress, Public Domain On February 1, 1960,...
In December 1773, colonial protesters destroyed 342 chests of East India Company tea in Boston Harbor, provoking...
‘Liber secretorum fidelium crucis’ by Marino Sanudo with maps by Pietro Vesconte. This map of the world was...
The feather merchant, Florentine Codex Book 10, folio 41r / Creative Commons Feathers, especially those from colorful...
Wall painting (1st century AD) from Pompeii depicting a multigenerational banquet / Naples National Archaeological Museum, Wikimedia...
Mountainous geography fostered independent Greek city-states. Athens and Sparta reveal how political participation in the ancient polis...
Hitler (left) and Nazi Propaganda Minister Göbbels (center) / National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons Looking k...
By any reasonable definition, eugenics never disappeared, and recently it has revived. By Dr. Theodore M. Porter...
Dance is a unique way of passing on cultural stories to a younger generation. Aaron Hawkins/Flickr.com Many Native languages are dying,...
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait of a Black Woman (formerly known as Portrait of a Negress), 1800, oil on canvas, 81 x...
Cylinder seals were impression stamps, often quite intricate in design, used throughout Mesopotamia. By Dr. Joshua J....
A close-up view of the Babylonian map of the World. This partially broken clay tablet contains both...
Exploring a deeper interrogation of the relationship between technology, historical scholarship, and more presentist social science. By Dr....
The historical analyses of Thomas McKeown regarding global population growth from 1700 to the present stirred controversy,...
At the dawn of the 17th century, early newspapers began to replace oral news. 10.28.2012 Theory behind...
The Acropolis at Athens painted by Leo von Klenze (1784–1864) / Public Domain Reviewing short, illustrated case...
In ancient Mesopotamia the gods infused every aspect of daily life and this, of course, extended to health care....
Investigating potential correlations between Roosevelt’s and Pos’ ideas on women’s rights and intercultural understanding. By Dr. Babs...
Júlia Lopes de Almeida was a founding member in the creation of the Brazilian Academy of Letters...
In the world today, eight men control as much wealth as the poorest half of the globe....
A statue of Henry David Thoreau in front of a replica of his cabin in Concord, Massachusetts. Chris...
This great writer, great naturalist, and great advocate of self-reliant individualism was also one of the founding fathers...
Discussing Ancient Greek women and their relationship to the visual arts solely on the evidence of the...
Detail of a cup currently on view in the new installation at the Getty Villa. The cup...
Rose Schneiderman, an unsung forerunner of the #MeToo movement, organized women to fight for laws to protect...
(Left-to-right) Carrie Clyde Holly, Clara Cresshingham and Frances Klock They had to convince a majority of men in...
On the eastern side of Ara Pacis is a relief of Tellus Mater, the Roman earth-goddess /...
“Phèdre et Hippolyte” (1802), by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin / Wikimedia Commons Classical discussions often get caught between that...
Linguistic dating is in close agreement with historians’ and classicists’ beliefs derived from historical and archaeological sources. ...