Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675 –...
Gloucestershire Constabulary at Northleach 1850s Pictures of Victorian policemen contain varied, conflicting and interacting strands of meaning....
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera...
Bacchanalia (cut), on a frieze / Photo by Roland zh, Wikimedia Commons Practices intimately tied to the...
The Seven Hathors, Temple of Hathor at Dendera / Creative Commons Ancient Egyptians set a premium on...
Engraving of the Star Chamber, published in “Old and new London” in 1873, taken from a drawing...
William Hogarth – Industry and Idleness, Plate 5; The Idle ‘Prentice turn’d away, and sent to Sea...
Bernhard von Gudden was a psychiatrist in Prussia and he was summoned in March 1886 to examine...
The Roman Forum / Photo by Bert Kaufmann, Wikimedia Commons The best intentions often end in the...
Whataboutism was long so pervasive in the USSR that it became a joke among Soviets and remains...
Orwell’s famous Ministry of Truth propaganda from his novel, 1984 The idea is to tear apart Russia’s...
Roman villa in Gaul sacked by the hordes of Attila the Hun, by Georges Rochegrosse, 1910 /...
Invasion of the Barbarians or The Huns approaching Rome by Ulpiano Checa, 1887 / Wikimedia Commons The Huns...
Egglestone Abbey, Barnard Castle in County Durham In medieval England, people in debt or who had broken...
From the Domesday Book Today, we tend to think that birth alone confers citizenship. Not so in...
The Shinto shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha, Mount Fuji. The site’s most important shrine, it was...
The Japanese Tea Ceremony / Photo by mrhayata, Creative Commons Tea was first drunk by Chinese monks...
His Republic was purely allegorical, a thorough experiment on the meaning of justice. By Dr. Aeon Skoble...
Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
War emergencies, Madison argued, were tests to obey the Constitution, not ignore it. By Dr. Burton W....
The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, by Jean-Pierre Houël / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Wikimedia...
The economic system of the Middle Ages was founded on feudalism, supporting the overlords with the work...
Conflicts between the medieval Christian church, led by the Pope, and nations, ruled by kings, occurred throughout...
Lucius Aemilius Paullus, acting as imperator, breaking ties of serfdom / Photo by Marco Prins, Louvre Museum,...
Darius, relief from the Central Relief of the Northern Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis When Darius became...
Senator John F. Kennedy speaks to supporters at Chicago Stadium four days before the 1960 election. AP...
The 1824 presidential election marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time...
1493 woodcut of Basle, from the Nuremberg Chronicle / Wikimedia Commons Population growth had exceeded the limits...
The Black Death was the largest demographic disaster in European history. By Dr. David Routt / 07.20.2008...
Scene from the Song Dynasty Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety, depicting a son kneeling before...