How does the term 'Renaissance' distort the narrative of African liberation? Gillian Schutte sounds the call for ...

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

The history of cartography is the frustrating study of what is left behind ... the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600. Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper ...