Map of Egypt showing the major sites and settlements Looking at the choices the ancient Egyptians made in...
Mythical figurines from Nagada The rise of the city as an important institution can perhaps more confidently be...
Kneeling emperor taking oath before bishop (Scene, Liturgical: Coronation, Oath). (Italy, early 14c.). Princeton University Library, Princeton...
Alnwick Castle / Photo by James*C, Creative Commons The notion that modern democracy has medieval roots was...
Socialists in Union Square, New York City, May 1, 1912 / Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons Socialism...
Toronto in lovely black and white / Photo by Steve Harris, via Flickr creative commons Just what...
Genking, a male-born Japanese TV personality and ‘genderless’ pioneer. _genking_/Instagram By Dr. Jennifer Robertson / 02.28.2017 Professor...
Aea Celestice is a 32-year-old transgender woman living in Jacksonville, Florida. Celestice said someone needs to hold...
Upper part of a gypsum statue of a Sumerian woman. The hands are folds in worship. The...
The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (Wikimedia Commons) Ancient Rome featured a myriad of, what could...
Photo: @Noapinion/Twitpic The Midwest has transformed into a stronghold of derivative Southernism: country music and mores, religious fundamentalism,...
Artistic impression of Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition...
Wikimedia Commons Exploring how women’s lives changed during the Russian Revolution, tracing the history of female revolutionaries in...
“Now is the time for us to set the terms of the conversation, to push back with...
A 1297 copy of the Magna Carta on display in the Members’ Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia / Wikimedia...
The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment...
Photo by Anton Bielousov (Own work: Slutwalk, via Wikimedia Commons Historical and structural inequalities that long flourished have...
Palatine Chapel, Creative Commons Charlemagne hailed from Aachen, where the 1743 Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen Treaty may have created fireworks...
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Science is one thread of culture – and entertainment, including graphic books, can reflect that. ‘The Dialogues,’ by...
Waterwheel, Darley Mill Centre / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the idea that we must think of technology in much...
The symbol of the Holy Roman Empire / Wikimedia Commons The evolution of the election in the...
Pnyx hill in Athens by Qwqchris. / Wikimedia Commons In the matter of the dēmokratia (‘People-Power’) that the Greeks invented (the...
Arms and armors of a typical noble Frankish warrior, 5th-6th century / Photo by Altaipanther, Germanisches Nationalmuseum,...
The Celtic tribes were each ruled by their own kings, queens, or chiefs, and were famed for...
The fear of prostitution and female promiscuity peaked during World War I. By Laura Lammasniemi / 07.28.2016 Teaching...
Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Did Shakespeare’s contemporaries believe in witches? Looking...
EPB/35960/A: François Mauriceau, The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed...
View from north-east of Reims Cathedral (High Gothic) / Photo by G.Garitan, Wikimedia Commons By Valerie Spanswick /...
Alcibades being taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent, 1776 / Musée Fabre, Wikimedia Commons Socrates’ most famous students before...