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An 1874 oil on canvas, Molesey Weir, Hampton Court, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. Here Sisley uses a variety of brushstrokes and has them in varying directions to give...

An 1874 oil on canvas, The Bridge at Hampton Court, by Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), the Franco-British impressionist painter. (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany)

Artist's impression of what the court of a Persian governor may have looked like.

Abd al-Rahman III Receiving the Ambassador by Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer (1862–1943 CE). Oil on canvas, 1885 CE. University of Barcelona

This video explains how court women lived during the Heian period in Japan.

This short lecture discusses about two of the most famous works of literature in Japanese history, both written by court women during the Heian period (794-1185CE): Murasaki Shikibu’s "The Tale of Genji" and...

The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) was the infamous ruling of the United States Supreme Court that, according to the US Constitution, Black people...

Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a religious dissident who was brought to trial by John Winthrop (1588-1649) and the other magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 for spreading...

Empress Wu Zetian (Empress Consort Wu, Wu Hou, Wu Mei Niang, Mei-Niang, and Wu Zhao, l. 624-705 CE, r. 690-704 CE) was the only female emperor of Imperial China. She reigned during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) and was one of the most...

The Battle of Monmouth (28 June 1778), or the Battle of Monmouth Court House, was the last battle of the Philadelphia Campaign during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). After abandoning control of Philadelphia, the...