A mysterious object carved on a Roman gem reminds us that the smallest things hold clues to...
During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his allegiance on several occasions. Introduction Alcibiades Cleiniou...
The losses that Athens suffered in the Peloponnesian War show the sad consequences of the repeated unwillingness...
Weather often significantly affects history. Fox’s Jesse Waters dismissedclimate change in a not-so-nuanced manner: “It gets hot....
We will watch these parts of our image of the world wash away, unsure of what will...
A conversation with author Steven Greenhouse on history and reviving American unions. By Michael Winship This past...
Don’t believe the corporate lies. Today’s unions are growing, expanding, and boosting the wages and economic prospects...
Introduction In late July 1961, O Cruzeiro magazine—Brazil’s answer to the American magazine Life—sent photographer Henri Ballot...
Different classes of people, the occupations they held, and what nationality they were played a role in...
The scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
The Sumerians were responsible for many important innovations, inventions, and concepts taken for granted in the present...
How Ella Fitzgerald’s cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance. It’s the stuff of legends: an urban legend...
How Billie Holiday learned to sing at the House of the Good Shepherd. To consider a women’s...
The thinking that a leader must “fill people with blind faith” that he and his party doctrine...
On November 10, 1958, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev fired the opening salvo of what would become known...
René Carmille, director of the National Statistical Service (SNS), stepped in to control and process Nazi census...
Robert Knox Sneden colored the record. A descendant of American Loyalists and born in Nova Scotia in...
Exploring maps and mapmaking influenced the development of colonial North America. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections...
Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane...
If they washed out, they had to pay their own way home. If they were injured or...
The forces keeping this chaotic, renegade organism in place are oblivious to the harm they are doing....
Prohibition evokes vivid images from fiction and history. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom,...
From PBR to the champagne of beers, Wisconsin brands made their mark. On a dark night in...
Parthia emerged as a serious Roman competitor on the silk routes. Introduction As a superpower in its...
Explore the themes, symbolism, and narrative techniques used to decorate the palaces of ancient Assyria. Introduction From...
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story...
Placing special emphasis on visual culture in the forms of photographs and postcards, Goldstein unpacks the complicated...
Entering the 21st century, roughly 10 percent of the nation’s pre-college-aged children attended parochial schools. By Derek...
Looking nostalgically to the past, a young architect sought to revive the building as a bulwark to...
A Getty exhibition illuminates the medieval cathedral’s role in European history and spotlights wondrous objects that survived...