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Bust of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) in the Temple of British Worthies, Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire. Designed by Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers.

The death of Roman Nose (Cheyenne Warrior) at the Battle of Beecher Island (1895), illustration from page 321 of Illustrated Battles of the Nineteenth Century by Archibald Forbes, Major Arthur Griffiths, et al., London, 1895. The image inaccurately...

Queen Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire, 3rd century CE, rebelled against the Roman Empire and may have been paraded by Emperor Aurelian through the streets of Rome in golden chains. Marble sculpture by Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1859 CE, now...

A statue of Henry VII, King of England (r. 1485-1509), built by Harriet Addyman, 2017. The statue sits outside Pembroke Castle, south Wales, where Henry was born in 1457.

Panoramic view of downtown Troy, New York, United States, taken from the Congress Street Bridge. In 1860, Harriet Tubman liberated Charles Nalle from slavery in Troy. Photograph by Matt H. Wade, 2009.

Lydia Maria Child (l. 1802-1880), American author, abolitionist, human rights activist, and editor of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, pictured here reading a book. Photograph by John A. Whipple, c. 1865. Library...

So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th Century CE turned into the 20th Century CE. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban...

In which John Green teaches you about America's "peculiar institution," slavery. I wouldn't really call it peculiar. I'd lean more toward horrifying and depressing institution, but nobody asked me. John will talk about what life was like...

Discovering forgotten or overlooked sources is always exciting. Jonathan D. S. Schroeder recently rediscovered John Swanson Jacobs’s narrative The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery. Jacobs’s narrative...

In American Crusade: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860-1920, Taylor University's Associate Professor of History Benjamin J. Wetzel explores the way Christian religious ideology and ‘social location’ shaped how American Christians...