They were portrayed as a sacred mission to reclaim the Holy Land – Jerusalem. However, as most...
Medieval map of Jerusalem by Konrad Grünenberg / Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom of Israel was created after the...
An illustrated scene at Bedlam from Hogarth’s series of paintings ‘A Rake’s Progress’ / Wikimedia Commons A history...
Wilhelm Wundt founds the first formal laboratory of psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. / Wikimedia...
Public Domain Writing local histories was a favourite hobby of many in the 18th century who had...
Image from an illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, showing Greek fire in use against the fleet of the rebel Thomas the...
Inscription of Xerxes, Van, Turkey: It is a trilingual inscription, written in Old Persian, Babylonian and Elamite...
Howz-Māhy is a region located in the center of Iran, where a considerable number of petroglyphs can...
Image by Michelle Gia, Flickr, Creative Commons The active properties of sharing – what it means to be...
By Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Gertrude Conaway Distinguished Vanderbilt Professor of Humanities (AADS and French) Vanderbilt University In...
The start of the 19th century was a time of hostility between France and England, marked by...
1789 Engraving, James Gillray / Public Domain Considering how Britain’s intellectual, political and creative circles responded to the...
The Café Griensteidl in Vienna, watercolour by Reinhold Voelkel, 1896. / Getty Images The idea of a...
Skulls of Homo sapiens (left) and Neanderthal (right) from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This derivative work shows the skulls...
Pitti Immagine Filati Thing theory does its best work by acknowledging the incapacity to attribute meaning to the...
Don DeLillo, New York City, 1990s How do the literary, visual, and plastic arts fashion questions about...
Sisters from Guatemala seeking asylum, cross a bridge to a port of entry in to the United...
British Library, Public Domain How early Asian settlers earned a living and made a home in Britain. ...
“East India House,” by Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) / Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons...
Coriolanus Addressing the Plebeians, George Cruikshank One of the most fundamental characteristics of civilization is the rule of...
In Ancient Greece, was considered as a normal state and peace was seen only as an exception or...
Registration rates for voters aged 18-29 have significantly increased in key battleground states over the last seven months...
British supply convoy with Russian escorts in Iran, September 1941 / Public Domain At dawn on August...
HMS Empire Windrush / Royal Navy official photographer, Wikimedia Commons Looking at some of the forgotten voyages that brought...
Engraved illustration from Harper’s Weekly newspaper of the wedding of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and...
Society has always been infatuated with dating and finding true love, especially during the Middle Ages. By Dr....
Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons Surveying the many written sources for Byzantine history. By...
22nd September 1776: British soldiers preparing to hang the American patriot and spy, Nathan Hale (1755 –...
‘Scene at Bideford Bridge’, by Mark Myers, showing the crowded waters of the Torridge during the heyday...