History
Explore the educational catalogue, one Discovery at a time.
- Archive 00471
Why Roman concrete still heals itself
- Archive 00479
The archive tied into knots
- Archive 00480
The imported objects inside Great Zimbabwe
- Archive 00481
A king's portrait small enough to spend
- Archive 00482
The date at the end of the Diamond Sutra
- Archive 00483
Ashoka's government written on a rock
- Archive 00484
The astronomy lesson preserved in Timbuktu
- Archive 00485
Nan Madol's city of artificial islets
- Archive 00486
The promises inside an ancient peace treaty
- Archive 01078
How farming changed settlement
- Archive 01079
Uruk and the first cities
- Archive 01080
Why early scribes counted goods
- Archive 01081
Hammurabi and unequal justice
- Archive 01082
Egypt and the annual Nile
- Archive 01083
Hatshepsut and royal legitimacy
- Archive 01084
Akhenaten and religious change
- Archive 01085
Phoenician letters across the Mediterranean
- Archive 01086
Athens and the limits of citizenship
- Archive 01087
The Roman Republic divides authority
- Archive 01088
Augustus and the language of restoration
- Archive 01089
Roman citizenship crosses an empire
- Archive 01090
The roads behind Persian rule
- Archive 01091
Silk Roads carried more than silk
- Archive 01092
The monsoon timetable of Indian Ocean trade
- Archive 01093
The Han state and its officials
- Archive 01094
Chang’an as a capital of connections
- Archive 01095
Civil examinations in imperial China
- Archive 01096
The Mongol relay system
- Archive 01097
Baghdad and the translation movement
- Archive 01098
The Swahili coast faces the ocean
- Archive 01099
Mali and trans-Saharan connections
- Archive 01100
The Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum
- Archive 01101
Angkor and water management
- Archive 01102
Maya cities and competing dynasties
- Archive 01103
Teotihuacan beyond its pyramids
- Archive 01104
Chinampas and the Aztec capital
- Archive 01105
Cahokia and the Mississippi landscape
- Archive 01106
The medieval manor and its obligations
- Archive 01107
A guild regulates a craft
- Archive 01108
Universities become corporations
- Archive 01109
Magna Carta and constrained kingship
- Archive 01110
The Black Death changes bargaining power
- Archive 01111
The Ottoman devshirme system
- Archive 01112
Mughal administration and land revenue
- Archive 01113
Tokugawa Japan regulates movement
- Archive 01114
Printing and the spread of disagreement
- Archive 01115
The Reformation fragments religious authority
- Archive 01116
The Columbian Exchange transforms diets
- Archive 01117
The Atlantic slave trade and forced migration
- Archive 01118
The Haitian Revolution creates a state
- Archive 01119
The French Revolution rewrites citizenship
- Archive 01120
The Congress of Vienna rebuilds order
- Archive 01121
The Meiji Restoration changes the state
- Archive 01122
Steam power changes factory work
- Archive 01123
Railway time replaces local noon
- Archive 01124
The Suez Canal changes global routes
- Archive 01125
The telegraph separates messages from travel
- Archive 01126
The abolition of slavery was a process
- Archive 01127
Women’s suffrage expands the electorate
- Archive 01128
The Indian independence movement and partition
- Archive 01129
Indonesia declares independence
- Archive 01130
Ghana and the end of colonial rule
- Archive 01131
Apartheid and its legal architecture
- Archive 01132
The United Nations begins with a charter
- Archive 01133
The Universal Declaration sets a common standard
- Archive 01134
The Bandung Conference connects new states
- Archive 01135
European integration begins with coal and steel
- Archive 01136
The Berlin Wall divides everyday life
- Archive 01137
South Africa’s negotiated transition
- Archive 01138
A census turns people into categories
- Archive 01139
Oral history records remembered experience
- Archive 01140
Archaeological layers and relative time
- Archive 01141
Calendars complicate historical dates
- Archive 01142
An archive preserves a selection
- Archive 01143
Maps express choices about territory