the lastest

Stone memorial and flower offerings at the Masakado mound in Tokyo’s Ōtemachi district, photographed in 2019.
Taira no Masakado: The Rebel Warrior Who Became a Guardian of Tokyo
Three women work around an aircraft engine and propeller at Douglas Aircraft, October 1942
Rosie the Riveter: The Women, the Wartime Posters, and the Myth
Adolf Hitler seated with Finnish leaders inside a railway dining car during his 1942 visit.
Finland’s Wartime Choice: Why a Democracy Fought Beside Nazi Germany
Mór Than’s nineteenth-century painting imagining a feast at the court of Attila.
Attila the Hun: Power, Diplomacy and the Limits of the Legend
Billy the Kid standing with a rifle in a tintype made around 1879–1880.
Billy the Kid and His Mother: What the Records Really Tell Us
Army of Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun: The Scourge of God Who Shook Two Empires

MYTHS AND LEGEND

The Ghostly Riders of the Night Sky
The Five Rivers of the Underworld
What We Actually Know About the Celtic Gods
Prince Meleager of Calydon: The Hero Who Burned From Within
The Many Faces of Medea
Hanno’s Voyage: When Carthage Explored Africa Before Rome

Ancient Times

A Student Revolt in Ancient Athens
Roman Voyages to Indo-Parthian India
Agamemnon: Leader of Mycenae and the Trojan War
Ancient Greek Warfare Tactics Explained
Story of the First Legend Hero: Cadmus
Steep stone seating of Pergamon’s ancient theater on the acropolis, with modern Bergama visible across the plain below.
The Attalid Dynasty: How Pergamon Turned Wealth into Royal Power
The Rage and Glory of Achilles: Hero of the Trojan War
Marble portrait identified as Aeschylus in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Aeschylus: The Father of Tragedy Who Fought at Marathon
The Fifth Labor of Heracles: Cleaning the Augean Stables
Ancient Medicine and the Four Humors
A brown-ink drawing of Aeneas carrying Anchises out of a burning city while a child walks beside him.
From Troy to Rome: The Legendary Journey of Aeneas
Heracles and the Cretan Bull: The Seventh Labor

Philosophy & Religion

Pope Alexander VI and the Scandalous Borgia Legacy
Montesquieu, Rousseau, and the Evolution of Social Institutions
Albert Camus’s Devastating Critique of the Guillotine
Heresies: Marcion, Gnosticism, Montanism, and Encratism Explained
The New Testament: A Brief Introduction
The Fall of Angels: Satan’s Rebellion and Christ’s Victory Over Darkness
morality
Locke and the Morality in Early Modern England
Christianity Constantine Era
Diocletian and Constantine: On the Threshold of the Fourth Century
Why the Liberal Arts Still Matter in an Age of Specialization
From Atheism to Natural Rights with Hobbes and Spinoza
Were the Mongols Really Religiously Tolerant?
Were the Mongols Really Religiously Tolerant?
hegel and freedom
Hegel, Freedom, and the Evolution of Ethics