Baron von Steuben at Valley Forge, 1777, by Augustus G. Heaton, 1907 / National War College By Mrs. Harriet...
History
Wooden beams used in ancient structures in the Mesa Verde region, such as this one examined by...
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France / Photo by GaryBlakeley, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Laura Brandon...
Canadian artist Alex Colville, war artist attached to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, on the Dutch/German border in the...
Ernest Hemingway with a bull near Pamplona, Spain in 1927, two years before ‘A Farewell to Arms’...
Detail from a New York Times article August 11, 1886 – New York Times By Dr. Gregg Mangan / 04.11.2014...
Advertisement for Beecham’s Pills, late 19th century It’s only become a hot-button issue in recent decades. For...
So-called “Peplos Scene” from the east Parthenon frieze (panels E31-35). The scene may depict the peplos garment...
Robert Lowell, American Poet By Robin Lindley / 11.10.2017 I believe that mania and genius not uncommonly...
Otto Dix, Assault Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor). 1924. Tate Liverpool. The paintings...
Lead archaeologist Lyudmil Vagalinski shows the last of the total of four ancient shrines discovered after every...
The Beauty of Palmyra, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek By Judith Weingarten / 09.02.2015 Archaeologist The Beauty of Palmyra When...
This khipu, which was made before the Spanish conquest of the Incas, was probably used for accounting, as...
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II, Engraved by Bernard Baron, 1745 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Anna Katharina Schaffner /...
View over Buttermere in Wordsworth’s favoured Lake District, England. Paul Albertella/Flickr By Dr. Fiona Stafford / 11.07.2016 Professor...
Portrait of two Ainu men from Sakhalin, photo by Bronislaw Pilsudski / National Museum of Natural History,...
Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers...
An aerial view of the Ancient Thracian mound which has turned out to hide the ruins of...
Lecture by Dr. Roger Tomlin at the Museum of London / 10.10.2017 Professor Emeritus Wolfson College University...
By Dr. Peter StearnsProvost Emeritus Professor of HistoryGeorge Mason University Introduction The word “shameless” is being tossed around an...
‘When you look back on it, where else would those articles appear? The Saturday Evening Post?’ Nick Lehr/The...
Left: Dish with Peacock Feather Pattern, about 1470–1500, Italian. Tin-glazed earthenware, 2 1/2 × 15 3/8 in. The...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, is the subject of Walter Isaacson’s newest book. Pictured is...
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Closed altarpiece. Left to right: before, during, and after restoration. A newly expanded web application provides an...
Engraving of a tableau by Frederik Ruysch (1744) Etching with engraving / National Library of Medicine By Dolly...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology produced by William Bally in 1832. Image Credit: Science Museum,...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...
A massive bulk cargo ship, the Pasha Bulker / Photo by Tim J. Keegan, Creative Commons By Guglielmo...