Aristocracy

The find may complicate our understanding of ancient societal hierarchies.

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics for decades

The revolutionary rallying cry 'Common Sense' — challenging authoritarian rule, countering the sway of the wealthy and upholding the will of the majority — is as relevant in 2025 as it was in 1776.

Women in the Ukrainian city of Sumy are escaping the war by exploring their home town's history through fashion using old photos to recreate costumes.

Colosseum sharks, screeching baboons, and all of Ridley Scott's historical exaggerations in Gladiator II, explained.

A recent biography of the German preacher and leader of the Peasants's War examines what remains radical about the short-lived rebellion he led.

Jackson Arn on Jean Strouse's book about Asher Wertheimer, a Jewish art dealer, and John Singer Sargent, the portraitist whose work is too often deemed an unironic celebration of the rich.

A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold Wednesday for nearly $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.

Interview with Keidrick Roy, author of "American Dark Age"

Victoria Baena on the writer Gustave Flaubert's relationship with the feminist socialist activist and novelist Amélie Bosquet, with whom he flirted and exchanged ideas, until her ideas threatened his work.

How Dostoevsky's Crafted Timeless Art

The number of ethnic Chinese incarcerated in Boven Digoel in the 1920s was low, but the New Guinea colonial prison nonetheless shaped Sino-Malay literature.

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

Finally, we beat grave robbers to the punch

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We can't pretend things are going great in the US. But we also must reject the pessimism that says things must stay like this

The New Right has a blueprint for taking power. JD Vance could be following it.

David Graeber and David Wengrow Forget 'Liberté' 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers October 19,...

The Democrats support always raising taxes that amount to robbing people with laws. They NEVER learn that Marxism has failed EVERY single time it has been

Thomas Piketty's 2020 book Capital & Ideology is a highly celebrated tome that uses economics and sociology to examine the intrinsic illegitimacy of income inequality and provides proposals for correcting its inherent flaws.