Early Christianity: Did you mean...?

Early homestead, Nicodemus, Kansas, c. late 19th century. The Homestead Act of 1862 accelerated settlement of the Western territory, guaranteeing title to 160 acres of surveyed land for each claimant who worked...

Historian and Professor David Potter (University of Michigan) discusses his latest book Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar (published August 2025). He explores the mysteries of Caesar's...

A c. 1871 oil on canvas, Early Snow at Louveciennes, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. Sisley worked with Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) at Louveciennes near Paris, and the influence...

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923). This is an early X-ray, taken in 1897, of a 30-year-old woman who was fully dressed when the X-ray was taken. Image from p.180 of The American...

Map showing fossil sites of Homo heidelbergensis and early Neanderthals.

How did the Viking chieftains who settled in Iceland get rich in early medieval times? Iceland was a peculiar polity since it did not really have "classical" institutions or social classes, nevertheless some...

Two men taking an X-ray with an early Crookes tube apparatus from the late 1800s. Illustration from The X-ray, or Photography of the Invisible and its Value in Surgery by William J. Morton and Edwin W...

In this video podcast, we'll take a look at one of the most overlooked peoples of ancient history, the Medes, and reconstruct their early history using Assyrian, Babylonian...

If you've ever been curious about the ancient land of Elam and Elamite civilization, then you're in luck. In this program, "The Early History of Elam and the Elamites," we take a look at...

An 1893 photograph of early prospectors at the Witwatersrand gold mines in Transvaal, Southern Africa. Mechanical Curator Collection, British Library