The Ascension of Christ from the Laudario of Sant’Agnese, about 1340, Pacino di Bonaguida. Tempera and gold on...
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Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.05.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – The Middle Kingdom 1.1 –...
Portrait of a Man, about 100 B.C., found in Delos, Greece. Bronze, white paste, and dark stone,...
Eastman Kodak Advertisement for the Brownie Camera, c. 1900 By Dr. Juliana Kreinik / 08.09.2015 Art Historian,...
Day from Times of Day, 1805, Philipp Otto Runge. Printmakers: Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger and Johann Adolph Darnstedt. Etching and...
Macbeth: I’m not all bad. Honest. Studio Canal publicity Shakespeare cast the Scottish king as the ultimate villain, but you shouldn’t believe...
Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.03.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Overview of the...
More than 2,000 years ago, the Babylonians understood the cycle of eclipses. They also regarded them as signs that could foretell the death of a king. By Dr. Gonzalo...
Ricardo Liberato/wikimedia, CC BY-ND Understanding the past requires knowledge that goes beyond modern science. By Dr. Daniel Brown / 03.12.2018...
Holloway Sanatorium in 1885 / Wellcome Library By Julia Nurse / 08.07.2016 Collections Researcher and Web Content...
William W Sargant, 1948. Wellcome Library reference: PP/WWS/A/19. Mike Jay delves into the personal papers of one of...
News in ancient Greece Greek and Roman historians were also known to fudge or fabricate their time in the...
mark higgins/Shutterstock It’s lunacy to believe you own the moon, so why is cultural heritage any different? TheParthenon sculptures at least belong together. By Dr. Constantine...
However you read The Prince, it is a reminder that the elementary condition of good government is effective...
Protests against the Horrible Holocaust !!! Stop! Stop! Stop! By Dr. Peter Cole / 02.25.2018 Professor of...
Section of the Bayeux Tapestry, created following William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in 1066 CE /...
Yellow Fever Epidemic, Philadelphia, 1793 (Pennsylvania State University Library) By Dr. M. Andrew Holowchak / 04.01.2018 Thomas...
Battle of Cowpens By Jim Stempel / 04.01.2018 On a bone-chilling morning in January, 1781 one of...
Cover and illustration from the copy of Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii in the special collections of the...
Engagement Ring with a Greek Inscription, about A.D. 1175–1300. Gold and enamel, 1 3/16 in. diam. Image...
In early modern Europe, melted sugar became its own dizzyingly complex artistic medium. By Dr. Darra Goldstein...
Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Jacques-Louis David, 1804. Oil on canvas, 23 2/4 x 19 1/2 in....
A reconstructed Viking ship. Caitlin Mills By Dr. Tom Clark / 03.25.2018 Associate Professor, First Year College Victoria...
Initial P: The Marriage of Gillion and His First Wife, Marie; Initial A: Gillion and Marie Embrace in...
Passion, Lament, Glory at Melbourne’s St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2017. Sarah Walker By Dr. Paul Megna / 04.12.2017...
By Dr. Mark D. Smith / 03.25.2018 Professor of History The College of Idaho Pontius Pilate, and...
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back...
Linda Brown Smith, right, and her two children in their Topeka, KS home 1974. AP While Linda Brown...
The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (an illustration to Milton’s Paradise Lost) by William Blake (1808). Courtesy MFA...
Frontispiece image showing man haunted by melancholy, from The Anatomy of Melancholy By Harkiran Dhindsa / 03.30.2016 The...