Today, you can find full libraries of resources to learn about Hitler’s Third Reich and the Holocaust. However, when artist Anselm Kiefer was growing up, this wasn’t the case. Kiefer grew up ...

Propaganda is a modern term that denotes the use of information or ideas to persuade or advance an objective, usually by manipulating questionable facts. However, while some of the most memorable ...

Food in ancient Egypt was an important part of culture and society, both in life and the hereafter. Temple walls were inscribed with the copious amounts of food offered to the gods. Tombs were ...

Marcel Duchamp is one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. He revolutionized painting and sculpture in multiple ways. Although his first readymade dates from 1913, only in 1915 did he ...

Born in Germany, but a naturalized citizen of France and the United States by his time of death, Ernst is an undoubtedly an interesting character. He’s known as the founder of the Dada and Surrealism ...

We’ve all come to recognize that we tend to hide different aspects of ourselves in various social settings. Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist, called this phenomenon ‘the persona’. The persona ...

Map showing ancient China under the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (also Great Qing). The dynasty ruled China from 1644 until 1912 when its last emperor, Xuantong, abdicated. The Qing Dynasty (officially the ...

On May 24, 1993, world maps had to be updated again as national borders shifted and a new nation was officially established. It was the culmination of a war that ended two years prior and established ...

The French Revolution is one of the most well-known events in European history. Starting in July 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille, the violence soon escalated ...

A Pyrrhic victory is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as “a victory that is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it.” It is the kind of victory no one would celebrate ...

Mehmed II (the Conqueror) transformed the Ottoman state into a centralized and bureaucratized empire. Like other rulers of his time, he was devout and believed in his right to rule with an iron fist.

The British Empire and the Russian Empire engaged in intense competition for control over Central Asia for most of the 19th century. The Great Game, a term for the British plan to safeguard its ...