Adolf Hitler and his entourage take a stroll in Paris on June 23, 1940. German Federal Archives/Wikimedia...
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Some of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the world – treasures combining gold and precious pigments – will go...
As with many fields of study, the canonical works of the social sciences are overrun with the...
Richard Caton Woodville’s The Battle of Towton. By Dr. James Clark Professor of Medieval History University of...
By Dr. Kostas Kapparis Associate Professor of Classics University of Florida Summary Suggested Reading: Apollodoros, “Against Neaira”...
By S.K. Narasimhan Sculpture The story of Indian art and sculpture dates back to the Indus...
Revolutions often fail. The French Revolution culminated in the leadership of Napoleon, a ruthless emperor who tried...
Mandukhai Khatun (1449-1510), also known as Mandukhai Sechen Khatun, was a Mongolian Empress. The word “Khatun” is...
The article traces the evolution of the treatment of prisoners of war and the emergence of the...
Intestinal parasites as well as goods were carried by travellers on iconic route, say researchers examining ancient...
Rollo’s grave at the Cathedral of Rouen By Susan Abernethy Historian The Freelance History Writer Fourteenth century...
Nancy Harkness Love / Wikimedia Commons Nancy Harkness Love was a trailblazing WWII pilot and commander who...
starsandheights.com The first essay in a two-part series in which Lily Ford explores how balloon flight transformed...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...
The pilgrim’s manuscript (detail), ca. 968, Mogao Grottoes Cave 17, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Ink on paper,...
Mummy Portrait of a Woman (detail), A.D. 100–110, attributed to the Isidora Master. Encaustic on wood; gilt;...
By Chip Richards / 07.06.2016 Aligning with the Natural Flow of Life “Nature does not hurry, yet...
19th-century “French postcard” from the personal collection of the German-Austrian psychiatrist and early sexologist Richard Freiherr von...
Queen Nzinga Mbande was a ruthless and powerful 17th century African ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba...
By Mark Cartwright In 1533 CE the Inca Empire was the largest in the world. It extended...
Hungarian-born Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel attends a symposium of Jewish-Hungarian solidarity in...
Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva (detail), ca. 851–900 CE. Ink and pigments on silk with gold leaf. British...
Benjamin Franklin observed many things about health, including the adverse effect of lead type. From www.shutterstock.com By...
Goats stand in front of the Frankish monastery of Isova in Greece. Photo: Hercules Milas / Alamy...
Nearly fifty years ago, history was made when Neil Armstrong took his famous first small step on...
In November 1861, while she was staying at Willard’s Hotel in embattled Washington, DC, Julia Ward Howe...
Statue of Boudicca by Thomas Thornycroft near Westminster pier. / Wikimedia Commons By Susan Abernethy The Freelance...
Queen Liliʻuokalani / Creative Commons Liliʻ (1838–1917), born Lydia Liliʻ Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻ, was the first...
The newly discovered roadside Roman pillar found near the Sostra Fortress close to Bulgaria’s Troyan mentions Roman...
By Dr. Scott Hippensteel Associate Professor of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina I grew up close...