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This reconstruction of the 14th-century water clock from the Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (Fez, Morocco) is now on display at the Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam. The Dar al-Muwaqqit is a...

Figure of Fatima Al-Fihri (c. 800-880) from the Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan. Fatima Al-Fihri was a Muslim woman, scholar and philanthropist who is credited with founding the world’s oldest, continuously running university during the 9th...

The fountain in the courtyard of Al-Qarawiyyin mosque complex, Fez, Morocco.

John Wesley Cromwell (l. 1846-1927), educator, historian, lawyer, and activist, from an 1887 sketch in Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising by William J. Simmons and Henry McNeal Turner, G. M. Rewell & Company, 1887.

Nat Turner's Rebellion as depicted in Samuel Warner's Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County, 1831. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Throughout the study of the past, historians have relied on broad conceptual shortcuts to categorize time, societies, and developments. While these models help structure historical analysis and provide useful comparisons, they can oversimplify...

A lithograph propaganda poster encouraging support of the Red Army by an unknown artist, 1919. The poster features two figures: on the right a soldier in a cossack-style hat and coat, holding a rifle, and on the left a proletarian worker...

Cover of the 1967 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron based on the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner by T. R. Gray. Designed by Paul Bacon.

Front of the Belmont Estate House, located on Buckhorn Quarter Road east of Capron in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. Built in 1790, it was the site of the concluding episode of Nat Turner's Rebellion on 23 August 1831. It is...

Title page of The Confessions of Nat Turner by T. R. Gray, printed by T. H. White, 1832. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.