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History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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Armand Henrion: The Artist Who Always Painted Himself As A Clown
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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4 Ancient Greek Federal States You Should Know
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5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know
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What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
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Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919
“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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What Is a Banana Republic?
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Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
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For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria
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The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship
We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner...
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We all know about the Titanic. Less often do we hear about the Britannic—the sister passenger liner that the British turned into a hospital ship during World War I. Launched in 1914, two years after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Britannic featured a number of...
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
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The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann?
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10 Facts About Odin the All-Father: Norse God of War & Wisdom
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A (Brief) History of the IRA
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The Irish Migrations That Transformed Britain in the Dark Ages
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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5 Quotes by Karl Marx Explained
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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What Happened During a Duel in Early Modern Europe & North America?
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Discover the Klondike Gold Rush: Frozen Riches
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10 Times Ivan the Terrible Really Was Terrible
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What Treaty Ended World War II?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz
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The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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Why Did Lot Sacrifice His Daughters? (4 Possible Justifications)
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
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10 months ago
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
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For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
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Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
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Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
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The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Evolutionary Success, from the Top of the Food Chain
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public...
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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A Painted Treatise on Cats From 19th Century Thailand
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi,...
8 months ago
This manuscript containing 12 paintings of different types of cats is in the format of a samut khoi, a Thai folding book that opens from top to bottom. It was made in the 19th century in central Siam (now Thailand) by an unknown artist. Such folding books were typically made from...
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Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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History of the Ancient Greek Olympics: 30 Fascinating Facts About the Legendary Games
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9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Who Invented the Ukulele?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
10 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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What Are Peter Sloterdijk’s 5 Most Important Ideas?
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Stéphane Breitwieser: The Tragic Story of the Most Successful Art Thief
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New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
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Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like?
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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The Jungian Persona: What Are the Masks We Wear?
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Ancient Philosophy for Children
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What Is the History and Significance of May Day?
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8 Facts About the Norse Goddess Freyja
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Sappho: The Lost Poetess
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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BRICS and how international institutions work.
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What Do Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures Represent?
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Josephine Baker: An American Dancer in the French Resistance
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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The Anarchist Prince: Who was Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin?
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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How Did the Protestant Reformation Influence European Art?
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Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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Everything You Need to Know About Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023
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Who Was Carolee Schneemann? 8 Facts About the Legendary Performance Artist
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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The Battle of Zama: How Scipio Gave Rome the World
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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5 Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome
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Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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