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1878 painting of Martin Luther and his followers by Julius Hubner
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.
Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor
Copernicus
Copernicus, Galileo, and the Catholic Church
Cover of Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper.
The Legacy of Luther
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).
When Free Trade Meant Something Else
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
A depiction of the burning of Louisa Mabree, a French midwife and convicted witch, in a cage filled with black cats
The Rise of Freethinkers
French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494.
The Blood Behind the Beauty
Plague doctor mask
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.
The Black Death and its Aftermath
Chinese manufactured goods, like this jar from the Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items.
Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade
Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
Sobaek Mountain
A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea
illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
This postcard depicts a recreation of the Arbella, the ship that carried John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans to present-day Massachusetts.
From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth
Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618
Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague
illustration of people around a fire ring
The Causes and Costs of Barrenness
Queen Elizabeth I in Parliament
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation
Portrait of Martin Luther
Martin Luther and the Reformation
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain
Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
August 1976 cover from Ms. Magazine.
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence
Book cover of Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road
3/30/2015: Hot off the Presses: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road