Nancy Harkness Love / Wikimedia Commons Nancy Harkness Love was a trailblazing WWII pilot and commander who...
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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...
Mosaic of a Lion Attacking an Onager, A.D. 150–200, Roman, made in Tunisia. Stone and glass tesserae,...
By Dr. Fabian Klose Historian Leibniz-Institute of European History Abstract Decolonization is a central historical trend. Occurring...
In the year 43, Vietnam came under the rule of the Chinese Han dynasty. This foreign domination...
By Dr. Yuval Noah HarariProfessor of HistoryHebrew University of Jerusalem Excerpt from Sapiens: A Brief History of...
Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) was the first African-American woman to become a licensed airplane pilot. She...
Saint Edith of Wilton, (961-984) was the illegitimate daughter of Anglo-Saxon King Edgar the Peaceable. She was...
Portrait of Louise de Keroualle (detail), Duchess of Portsmouth, about 1671–74, Peter Lely. Oil on canvas, 49...
Detail from a hand-colored engraving of Byron’s Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, by Edward...
By Catherine Hokin The Freelance History Writer It is particularly apt to begin this exploration of the reputation...
By Ashley Farmer / 06.03.2016 On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory,...
In the galleries of Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts. Photo: Bryan C. Keene. All rights reserved...