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Many of William Hogarth’s prints call attention to social ills within 18th-century British society, thereby paving the way for healing. Here, Hogarth represents the dire effects of gin consumption, which had risen steeply in the first decades of the…

from the article "They Starved So That Others Be Better Fed: Remembering Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Experiment"

Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America’s finest historians, W.E.B. Du Bois knew that the liberation of African Americans required liberal education and not vocational training. He saw education…

Lifelike-and nearly life-size-statues such as this arresting Saint Sebastian were prevalent in churches in Renaissance Italy. It is carved in inexpensive wood, which was more easily worked than marble or bronze, and allowed for an easy naturalism.…

This is an old picture of Cairo University, which may or may not be related to the education of our subject.