Barcelona’s harbor in the 18th Century / Wikimedia Commons In the early-18th century, absolute monarchies set about...
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Lecture by Dr. Joseph R....
AboutWorldLanguages.com The Shan of northern Myanmar speak a language of the Tai-Kadai family found from southern China,...
Ancient temples of Bagan / Photo by Nicholas Kenrick, Wikimedia Commons Humans lived in the region that...
Although the original purpose of the convention was to amend the Articles of Confederation, some—though not all—delegates...
Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine advocated a republic: a state without a king. By Dr. P. Scott Corbett,...
The Scholar with His Student, Anonymous Flemish painter (circle of Gerard Thomas and Balthasar van den Bossche)...
The big, new ideas of high medieval academia were Aristotle’s. By Dr. Hans Peter Broedel Graduate Director,...
Young Women in the Garden, 1939, by Nguyễn Gia Trí / Heidelberg University, Creative Commons As early...
Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer / Wikimedia Commons Women held many important and influential...
You want the truth? You can’t handle the … wait: it’s actually quite simple. Daveblog As is...
Page 789, Munsey’s Magazine, 1909: story “The higher pragmatism” Extract of illus from scan. Author O. Henry,...
The Death of Chatteron (suicide with arsenic), by Henry Wallis, 1856 / Tate Britain, Wikimedia Commons Since...
There were lots of exciting forms of gambling in the Middle Ages (more than nowadays) but they...
The Mar Saba monastery well hidden in the Kidron canyon in Yehuddah Desert / Photo by Hedva...
One of the churches in Mamshit. (Creative Commons) The incense route was a path spanning more than...
Photo by Ted Spiegel/National Geographic/Getty Emotional therapy is the animating heart of religion combing social bonding surrounded...
Comet critique; the case for moral atheists. The Great Comet of 1577 by Jiri Daschitzsky. / Wikimedia...
Seven centuries of the Rothschild Pentateuch’s history chart the story. By Dr. Elizabeth Morrison / 09.19.2018 Senior...
Examining the view that the Orthodox Church stifled the development of East Slavic intellectual thought. By Dr....
Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350 – 1375). Photo courtesy the Herzog August Bibliothek,...
In the Medieval ages there was an incredible amount of criminals, mostly because of impunity which gave...
Painting depicting George Washington leading the Continental Army to Valley Forge in 1777, by William B. T....
Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Self-Portrait in a Green Vest’ (1837). Wikimedia Commons Through his art and his travels, 19th-century...
Gaius Gracchus Weeping Before his Fathers Statue, engraved by B.Barloccini, 1849 Tribunes protected the plebs from any...
Romulus and Remus with the Capitoline Wolf / Photo by CellarDoor85, Wikimedia Commons A meager beginning of...
The history of Rome is a case study in just how much power can corrupt a person,...
This stone block portrays Akhenaten as a sphinx, and was originally found in the city of Amarna/Akhetaten....
Unlike Dr Strangelove, few people learned to love the bomb – but it changed society nonetheless. Columbia...
In 1945, one major war ended and another began. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 09.26.2018 Historian...