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Modern practitioners of Judaism and Christianity often turn to the Bible for stories concerning women and their roles in ancient religion and society. It is important to acknowledge that these stories were written by men. The male perspectives...

The Iron Age in the traditional Ancient Near Eastern chronology ranges from somewhere around 1200 BCE to 333 BCE. It begins from the era when it was first thought iron came to be used up to the ascendency of Alexander the Great as the major...

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-ancient-athenian-robert-garland It’s 427 BCE, and the worst internal conflict ever to occur in the ancient...

Despite all the hardship of being a Black person in Colonial America, some Black people were able to defy the harsh conditions and create art. Today we're learning about a teenager who attained literacy and wrote poems that reached a large...

Jemima Cornwallis, wife of British general Lord Charles Cornwallis, Mezzotint by James Watson after an original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1771. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Lakota Sioux warrior and "sacred clown" One Bull (l. c. 1853-1947), brother of White Bull and nephew of Sitting Bull. Photograph by Dr. George P. Dix, Joshua Bradford Bailey, and John L. Mead, 1882. American Philosophical Society Digital...

Lieutenant General John Burgoyne (1722-1792), a British military officer and playwright. Burgoyne is best known for leading the British army during the Saratoga Campaign (June-October 1777) during which he was defeated and forced to surrender...

British actress and writer Mary Darby Robinson, posing as her famous character 'Perdita', oil on canvas portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782. Waddesdon Manor.

Portrait of Sir Banastre Tarleton, one of the most infamous British officers during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782. National Gallery, London.

A 1771 oil-on-canvas portrait of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) the Anglo-Irish statesman and political thinker. Painted by the studio of Joshua Reynolds. (National Portrait Gallery, London)