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Did Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland?

Did Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland?

February 18, 2017

Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, novelist and poet Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels and poems created an...

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The Civil War and Reconstruction in America

The Civil War and Reconstruction in America

February 18, 2017

Collecting the Dead. Cold Harbor, Virginia. April, 1865. Via Library of Congress.   By Dr. Thomas Balcerski and...

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A Brief History of Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization

A Brief History of Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization

August 23, 2025

Mesopotamia: The “Land Between the Rivers” Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.17.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Timeline of...

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19th-Century ‘New Thought’ and Its Evolution to Modern Prosperity Gospel

19th-Century ‘New Thought’ and Its Evolution to Modern Prosperity Gospel

September 4, 2025

By Dr. Christopher H. EvansProfessor of the History of ChristianityBoston University Introduction President Donald Trump embraces several...

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A Friendship that Saved the Early Life of One of Our Greatest Presidents

A Friendship that Saved the Early Life of One of Our Greatest Presidents

April 25, 2024

Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln. Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Charles B. Strozier / 02.15.2017...

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The Tombs of Ancient Ostia

The Tombs of Ancient Ostia

September 30, 2025

Gate at Porta Romana / Wikimedia Commons Necropolises NOTE: The Isola Sacra necropolis will be covered in...

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Ancient Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans to the Hellenistic Age

Ancient Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans to the Hellenistic Age

February 18, 2017

Reconstructed illustration of the Palace of Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Lisa M. Lane / 10.09.2016...

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A General History of Technology from the Paleolithic Era to Modern Times

A General History of Technology from the Paleolithic Era to Modern Times

August 13, 2024

A design for a flying machine, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1488 / Institut de France, Paris By...

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The World of the High Middle Ages: Society, Thought, and Culture

The World of the High Middle Ages: Society, Thought, and Culture

September 16, 2025

By Lisa M. Lane / 05.16.2016Professor of HistoryMiraCosta College Medieval Society and Communitarianism The traditional classes of...

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Independence from Spanish Rule in South America in the Nineteenth Century

Independence from Spanish Rule in South America in the Nineteenth Century

February 2, 2024

Sally James Farnham, Equestrian Portrait of Simón Bolivar, dedicated 1921, bronze, 13 feet 6 inches tall (located at...

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Florence Nightingale: Of Myths and Maths

Florence Nightingale: Of Myths and Maths

February 17, 2017

Florence Nightingale: More than a nurse By Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin / 02.16.2017 Assistant Professor of History,...

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Meet the Controversial Cupid of Eighteenth-Century France

Meet the Controversial Cupid of Eighteenth-Century France

February 16, 2017

Installation view of Cupid Carving a Bow from Hercules’s Club (1750); in the background, preparatory drawings for...

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Manifest Destiny and America’s Westward Expansion

Manifest Destiny and America’s Westward Expansion

April 5, 2024

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1862. Mural, United States Capitol. By Ethan...

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High Medieval Expansion – Church, Economy, Technology

High Medieval Expansion – Church, Economy, Technology

November 15, 2023

By Lisa M. Lane / 05.15.2016 Professor of History MiraCosta College Introduction The High Middle Ages was...

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The Growth and Diffusion of Rome: Republic, Empire, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages

The Growth and Diffusion of Rome: Republic, Empire, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages

February 16, 2017

Pont du Gard, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Gard department, South France. The Pont du Gard is the most famous...

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Ancient India: Indus Valley Emergence, Vedic and Classical Ages, and the Mauryan Empire

Ancient India: Indus Valley Emergence, Vedic and Classical Ages, and the Mauryan Empire

May 15, 2024

Excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, with the Great Bath in the foreground and the Buddhist Stupa in the...

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Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean

Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean

February 16, 2017

Ruins of Limantepe in Western Anatolia (Turkey) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus...

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Ancient Trickster Wisdom for Uncertain Times

Ancient Trickster Wisdom for Uncertain Times

February 16, 2017

By Jacob Devaney / 02.14.2017 What can We Learn from Tribal Tricksters? Sometimes you need to break...

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Early Modern Needlework Pattern ‘Lace-Books’

Early Modern Needlework Pattern ‘Lace-Books’

August 15, 2022

  By David Brafman and Lisa Cambier / 07.19.2012 Brafman: Rare Books Curator, Getty Research Institute Cambier:...

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History of the Soviet Union, 1985-1992: Afghans to Perestroika-Glasnost and Baltic Independence to Dissolution

History of the Soviet Union, 1985-1992: Afghans to Perestroika-Glasnost and Baltic Independence to Dissolution

October 18, 2023

Boris Yeltsin (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev (right) / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor...

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The Sectional Crisis during America’s Expansion

The Sectional Crisis during America’s Expansion

July 21, 2022

This mural, created over eighty years after Brown’s death, captures the violence and religious fervor of the man...

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Colonial Life and Society in Pre-Revolutionary America

Colonial Life and Society in Pre-Revolutionary America

February 8, 2018

Charles Willson Peale, “The Peale Family,” ca. 1771-1773, via New York Historical Society.  By Dr. Emily Arendt...

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Shakespeare’s Astronomy

Shakespeare’s Astronomy

January 19, 2022

Portrait of William Shakespeare 1564-1616. Chromolithography after Hombres y Mujeres celebres 1877 / Barcelona Museum Lecture by...

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The Growth of London as a Port from Roman to Medieval Times

The Growth of London as a Port from Roman to Medieval Times

May 14, 2020

Model of the Roman Port / Port of London Authority Lecture by Dr. Gustav Milne, Museum of...

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The Ostia Mithraea: An Introduction to the Cult of Mithras and Tour of the Ostian Shrines

The Ostia Mithraea: An Introduction to the Cult of Mithras and Tour of the Ostian Shrines

January 25, 2021

The Mithraeum of the Seven Gates. / Photograph: Bill Storage. Mithraism By Alison Griffith Mithraism is the...

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Democracy in America, from the Early Republic to the Jacksonian Era

Democracy in America, from the Early Republic to the Jacksonian Era

March 2, 2018

George Caleb Bingham, “The County Election,” via Reynolda House Museum of American Art. By Dr. Christopher Childers /...

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The Aristocratic Ethos of the Roman Republic

The Aristocratic Ethos of the Roman Republic

March 28, 2023

By Dr. Nicholas K. Rauh Professor of Classics Purdue University The Roman Cursus Honorum / Wikimedia Commons...

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Archaeology of the Acropolis in Athens: Early Settlement to Today

Archaeology of the Acropolis in Athens: Early Settlement to Today

February 14, 2017

Reconstruction painting of the Acropolis and Areus Pagus in Athens, by Leo von Klenze / Neue Pinakothek...

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History of the Soviet Union, 1980-1985: From a Siberian Rail to an Underground Economy

History of the Soviet Union, 1980-1985: From a Siberian Rail to an Underground Economy

February 28, 2018

Trans-Siberian Railroad / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor of Russian and European History...

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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments: A Forty-Year Mark of Shame

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments: A Forty-Year Mark of Shame

May 20, 2024

Group of men who were test subjects in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, 1972 / U.S. Department of...

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