Barbara Jordan, first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas, is remembered for her commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Her speech in favor of the impeachment of President Richard Nixon was a key moment in the Watergate…
The cornerstone on the left hand side of the church at Santa Clara's Carmelite Monastery, which reads "In Memoriam Alice Phelan Sullivan Foundress Carmel of the Infant Jesus Santa Clara." Gold type laid over what looks like marble or granite, fitted…
A detail from the Book of the Dead of Tayesnakht from Thebes, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE. Pharaohs often wore two crowns to signify the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt