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Tomb (of the Funeral Bed?), 470-60 B.C.E., found in the necropolis of Tarquinia (Villa Giulia, Rome) Author...
Photograph of Karl Marx, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1875 / International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam,...
William James Bennett, “View of South Street, from Maiden Lane, New York City,” ca. 1827 / Metropolitan...
Clouds pouring from the volcano on Krakatoa (aka Krakatau or Rakata) in south western Indonesia during the...
Children in the Russian Famine of 1946-1947 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor...
The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber,...
Judeo-Spanish: A Dying Language By Dr. Haïm Vidal Séphiha / 1997 Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Université Paris...
Palace of Westminster / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. John Merriman / 10.08.2008 Charles Seymour Professor of...
By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History Michigan State University 900 Days...
Left: A Sumerian tablet with cylinder seal impression of a hunter with hunting dogs and boars....
Stupa 3, 1st c., Sanchi, India (photo: Nagarjun Kandukuru) By Dr. Karen Shelby / 08.09.2015 Assistant Professor of Art History Baruch...
The warrior was buried in an olive grove outside the acropolis of Pylos. Though archaeologist Carl Blegen...
Salisbury Village and the River Avon By Jaunting Jen / 01.26.2017 All photos provided by author The...
By Dr. Ethan Watrall / 10.27.2014 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Michigan State University To the Ancient Egyptians,...
The Pentice, Winchester. Scene of an altercation between three women, 28 September 1544. / Wikimedia Commons By...
Illustrated map of scenes of the Axe murders, March 1919. / Times-Picayune By Dr. Romeo Vitelli /...
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston. Photo...
By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History Michigan State University Aleksandr Gerasimov...
Alfonso X of Castile and his court, as shown in the 12th-century Libro de los Juegos /...
Old Grammar School, Church Square, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, Founded in 1607 by Robert Smyth (a bus stop...
Opening of the Declaration of Independence / Wikimedia Commons Professor Freeman discusses the Declaration of Independence and...
Aztec Sun Stone (Calendar Stone) / National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City By René Voorburg Introduction A colored...
Matala cave tombs, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies...
Fireworks go off before Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. Andrew Kelly/Reuters...
Dante meets Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinità, inspired by La Vita Nuova (Beatrice is in white). By...
By Henry J. Sage / 11.15.2016 Historian Introduction The revolutionary fighting ended with the surrender of Cornwallis’s...
Introduction Horrea for grain – light blue; dolia defossa – dark blue; other store buildings – yellow;...
Portrait of John Quincy Adams, by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1858 / White House Blue Room ...
Portrait of Thomas Paine by Auguste Millière, 1880 / National Portrait Gallery, Washington A focus on the...