Modern scholars have debated the exact nature of the Spartan krypteia, a group of young men who...
Creative Commons He would earn the name Scarface and lead one of the most notorious crime syndicates in history. By...
Seduction, propaganda, and ultimate power and control. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 08.05.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief...
Edinburgh Castle / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons The escheator was the local official responsible for upholding...
15th Century medieval marketplace / Wikimedia Commons Like many European concepts, the Middle Ages is one which...
Nero didn’t really fiddle while Rome burned – he wasn’t even there. Examining the link between societal crisis...
The Julio Claudian Ravenna Releie / Creative Commons Descriptions of the diseases of some of these emperors...
British Vickers machine gun crew during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge, World War I, photo by Ernest Brooks / Public...
Public Domain How did World War One break out? Professor David Stevenson closely examines the three stages...
Blessing from the Medicine Man, Howard Terpning®, 2011 / The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. Native American concepts of health...
The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495, reaching Scotland in 1497 and Russia in 1499. By...
The Erechtheum, western side, Acropolis, Athens, Greece / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons Athens attained its Golden...
Spartan ruins / Photo by Ronny Siegel, Wikimedia Commons Spartan women enjoyed status, power, and respect that...
Looking at at a group of white slaveholders who adopted Southeast Indian boys (Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw) into...
The Great Wall of China / Photo by Jakub Halun, Wikimedia Commons The concepts and technology of defensive...
Photo by Dada, Wikimedia Commons Tattooing was practised by many ancient societies, including the ancient Egyptians and...
The tattooed right hand of a Chiribaya mummy is displayed at El Algarrobal Museum, near the port...
While conducting search and rescue in the mountains of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in September of...
Water wheel at Molino de la Albolafia, Córdoba / Photo by Elliott Brown, Wikimedia Commons We may assume...
Near Oymyakon in Yakutia, Russia / Photo Maarten Takens, Wikimedia Commons To work out how the climate...
Abigail Adams / Public Domain As state sponsored government art, stamps offer an incredibly rich visual resource....
“She Who Points the Way.” Wall Fragment with the Virgin Mary and Coats of Arms, mid-1400s, made...
The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic / British Library, Public Domain Challenging the idea of the 19th century...
Heinrich Leutemann [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons There’s a surprising amount in common between ancient ways of thinking about the future and the techniques we use...
David, The Love of Helen and Paris (detail), Wikimedia Commons Helen’s homecoming was on the surface successful, but there was...
A fragmented painting of a woman bearing offerings, from the Mycenaean palace at Tiryns. (Carole Raddato/Wikimedia Commons) Researchers found...
The Āmeri House is a historic house in Kashan, in Isfahan Province, in Iran / Photo by...
In traditional Thai culture, horoscopes and divination were used to establish the fate and future of people....
Scientific investigation was a central part of eighteenth century philosophical inquiry. By George Goodwin / 12.18.2017 Eccles...
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 1794. (British Library: Maps K.Top.83.61.i) That the American Declaration of Independence was based...