Volume 72 Issue 6 June 2022

Did two paintings by the Italian master Caravaggio end up in a backstreet shop in Avignon?

Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece.

Victoria Claflin Woodhull was ratified as the Equal Rights Party’s candidate for the presidency on 6 June 1872.

The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading, warping our perception of the Middle Ages. It should be retired.

In 1022 heretics were discovered in northern France and burned to death for their crimes. But what caused this outbreak of radical thought?

There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. 

As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library.