The Last Kingdom. BBC/Carnival/Des Wille New research suggests his military achievements might have been exaggerated. By Dr. Stuart Brookes...
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Give a man a ploughshare, and he’ll turn it into a sword. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH An elite class...
The owner of this skull had a nasty run in with an axe. Christian Meyer These massacres entail killing...
She’s the Schneiderman who championed women’s rights in the 20th century. By Dr. Jennifer Scanlon Associate Professor...
During the war, the poster on the left, painted by J. Howard Miller, was only on display...
Florence Kelley (center) / Public Domain By Dr. Miriam Forman-Brunell Professor of History, Women, and Gender University...
Reproduction of an original photograph by George Wick of the embalmed body of Julia Pastrana on display...
Rock art in central Northumberland, northern England. Author provided Trying to save Neolithic rock art made by our ancient ancestors is no easy task. But it tells us how...
Cat’s Brain long barrow is near the more famous Stonehenge (pictured) but predates it by hundreds of...
A group of Mosby’s Rangers (Mosby center) By Robert Naranjo In the pre-dawn hours of August 13,...
General Ulysses S. Grant / Library of Congress By Scott Laidig Senior Fellow Potomac Institute for Policy...
By Kimberly J. Largent Editor Charge the Cannons Publishing The Early Years Mary Todd Lincoln, the most criticized...
Anderson Prison (Camp Sumter) / Wikimedia Commons By Jerry Staub INTRODUCTION General William Tecumseh Sherman as a...
Preparing to decorate graves, May 1899. Library of Congress Memorial Day, a holiday that began 150 years ago, was born...
The amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery just across the Memorial Bridge from Washington, DC / Photo by...
Detail from a portrait Thomas de Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordon, date unkown – Wikimedia Commons Robin Jarvis...
Aristotle s definition of rhetoric in one founding text in the rhetorical tradition. The role of rhetoric...
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman: a true Amazonian, she is trained in a range of skills in...
Women’s contribution to art history might have to be revised – for the better. Dean Snow/Society for American...
Humboldt Fog chèvre, born in a dream. T.Depaepe, CC BY-ND By Dr. Heather Paxson / 12.13.2017 Professor of Anthropology...
A cellar worker steams American oak wine barrels before their use at Silver Oak Cellars in Oakville,...
Ecce Homo, the king Caspar, the Virgin and Child, and the Arms of the Families Kündig and...
Curse Tablet, about 100 B.C., found in Morgantina, Sicily. Lead, 3 11/16 x 1 13/16 in. (9.4...
Detail from a bell krater depicting the Delphic oracle atop her tripod. / The British Museum via...
Keep calm and get your stoic on: more people today are heeding the advice than perhaps ever...
The tragedies of ancient Greece underpin Nietzsche’s understanding of what it means to be an artist. Hans Runge/Flickr...
Kunstmuseum St Gallen/Wikimedia Commons If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for...
Pexels Thankfully, defleshing bones has fallen out of fashion. By Dr. Yvonne Inall / 12.30.2016 Research Assistant...
A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked...
Wellcome Trust/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA At Ebbsfleet, in northeast Kent, archaeologists have finally uncovered the site where JuliusCaesar’s fleet landed in 54 BCE...