The British Museum’s Enlightenment Room is a display dedicated to the age of Enlightenment. Separated into the...
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Byzantine Church of Panaghia Kapnikarea, Athens / Creative Commons By Dr. Nikos Moschonas Historian Institute of Byzantine...
Zoot suit wearing pachucos detained by the police, ca. 1942 This June marks the 74th anniversary of...
Look into my eyes… Adolf Hitler photographed by his personal photographer practicing for public speaking in 1925....
Fresco showing a sceptical looking young man with a scroll labelled “Plato”, from Pompeii / Wikimedia Commons...
By Alkistis Choremi Head of Department in First Ephorate of Classical and Prehestoric Antiquities Greek Ministry of...
Salisbury House Library and Rare Documents Collection, Des Moines, IA By Dr. Charlie Huenemann / 05.30.2017 Professor...
Edward the Confessor on his deathbed, Bayeux Tapestry / Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Normandy By Susan...
On the left, Katsushika Hokusai’s ‘The Manifestation of the Peak’ (1834); on the right, Wright’s rendering of...
Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA, Leipzig By Dr. Matthew Skinner / 06.07.2017 Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology University of...
Front Panel from a Sarcophagus, about A.D. 180, Roman. Marble, 18 5/16 × 68 1/8 × 6...
The Intervention of the Sabine Women (detail), by Jacques-Louis David, 1799 / Louvre Museum, Paris By Dr....
Dante and the Three Kingdoms by Domenico-di-Michelino / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. John Marenbon / 02.23.2016 Fellow,...
Socrates and his Students, illustration from ‘Kitab Mukhtar al-Hikam wa-Mahasin al-Kilam’ by Al-Mubashir, Turkish School, (13th c)...
Elvert Barnes Photography/Flickr By Ian Lekus / 11.26.2015 How do I teach the history of HIV/AIDS to...
The so-called ‘Thucydides Trap’? US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing, 2015....
Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope of 1671 / The Royal Society, London By Thony Christie / 03.28.2017 Historian...
Excavations at Banias / Photo by Derek Winterburn/Flickr By Diana Darke / 06.06.2016 In the complex world of...
Sketch by Hokusai / Wikimedia Commons By Antony Cummins / 11.25.2015 A few people might know a...
Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Middle East and...
Photo by Ken Howard By Dr. Eric A. Gordon / 06.01.2017 Almost a decade ago I had...
The Roman Forum, by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, 1755 / The Louvre Museum, Paris  By Dr. Markian...
The Stoa of Attalos at Athens – a modern reconstruction of the 2nd-century BCE building / Wikimedia...
The IIIF Mirador viewer showing the Getty Museum’s Van Tromp Going about to Please His Masters (left)...
Rhynie, Aberdeenshire / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Joshua J. Mark / 03.18.2016 Professor of Philosophy Marist College Introduction...
Gustav Wunderwald, Unterführung in Spandau, 1927 / Neue urheberrechtsfreie Künstler, Neuheiten The Berlin of the 1920s is often associated...
The Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes Spring Equinox ritual at an ancient temple of Goddess Artemis in...
Lecture by Dr. Sir Richard J. Evans at the Museum of London / 09.13.2010 Provost, Professor of...
By Dr. Manolis Korres Lecturer in Architecture International Institute for Restoration and Preservation Studies Topography and Excavations...
The First Thanksgiving, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1621 / Library of Congress By Dr. Bryan W....