German journalist and novelist Theodor Fontane. Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Petra S. McGillen / 04.,05.2017 Assistant Professor of...
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The trail of the Centenary Walk in Epping Forest, south of High Beach, Essex – England / Photo...
Dentist (detail), 1659–81, Jan van der Bruggen. Engraving, 26.6 x 18.7 cm. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The exploding...
By Dr. Marcel Nieden / 07.27.2012 Professor of Protestant and Historical Theology Universität Duisburg-Essen Introduction Based on...
Bathsheba Bathing (detail), leaf from the Hours of Louis XII, 1498–99, Jean Bourdichon. Tempera colors and gold on...
Deep inside Monte Kronio, hot, humid and sulfurous caves held an ancient secret. Giuseppe Savino, La Venta Esplorazioni...
Paleolithic sculptures found in caves are some of the earliest examples of representational art. Hand Stencils from...
Mugshot of Emma Goldman taken in Chicago, on 10 September, 1901 after she was arrested on suspicion...
Initial D: Saint John the Baptist, about 1520, Matteo da Milano. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 87, fol....
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ran for President in 1972 By Dr. Kimberly A. Hamlin Associate Professor of...
The 8th Quinquennial Council Meeting of the ICW in Vienna / Public Domain By Dr. Leila J....
Members of the Grand Rapids League of Women Voters organized a city get-out-the-vote parade in 1924. Grand Rapids...
This group portrait monument to the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, which won women the right...
Relics of St. Valentine of Terni at the basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin. Dnalor 01 (Own work)...
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1854, Roger Fenton (British, 1819-1869). Hand-colored albumen silver print. Royal Collection Trust / ©...
Poseidon taking chocolate from Mexico to Europe, a detail from the frontispiece to Chocolata Inda by Antonio Colmenero de...
The magical substance: Cacao Fruit and Leaf, November 27, 1783, Jan Brandes. Graphite and wash on paper, 19.5...
By Maite Gomez-Rejón / 02.13.2014 Food and sex are the most basic human drives. It’s no wonder that aphrodisiacs—food...
Eros Wearing a Lionskin, Greek, 100–1 B.C. Terracotta, pigment, and gold, 15 3/4 in. high. The Museum...
Photo Collage from Open University, Creative Commons Novelist Robert Harris speaks with Steve Inskeep about how the...
Hernán Cortés / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Reinhard Wendt / 12.03.2010 University Professor Head of the Department of...
The wife and daughters of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine By Dr. Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD / 02.12.2018 Chancellor’s Professor...
Ottavio Leoni, Portrait of Galileo, 1624, engraving and etching (Fitzwilliam Museum) By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor...
Urbano Monte’s planisphere, digitally stitched together. Source: Rumsey Map Center By Ahmed Kabil / 02.01.2018 Historian Near the end...
Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.12.2018 Historian Editor-in-Chief, Brewminate The Study of History Splitting...
By Dr. Jürgen WilkeProfessor of Journalism and CommunicationsJohannes Gutenberg University Introduction Censorship as a means of controlling communication has...
An Intertype Fotosetter, one of the most popular “first-generation” mass-market phototypesetting machines. The system is heavily based...
Sandra Marquez as Clytemnestra and Stephanie Andrea Barron as Iphigenia in the Court Theater production of Euripides’s Iphigenia...
Detail of a Tapestry depicting Constantine’s Victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge designed by Peter Paul Rubens 1623-1625 CE. Photographed at...
Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius, bronze, c. 173-76 C.E., (Capitoline Museums, Rome) By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 08.08.2015...