Historic Painting: "Le Tache Noire" (The Black Spot) by Albert Bettannier, 1887.
This painting is a masterwork of light, emotion and human expression, but it also contains an explicitly political message.
Sean Munger
The little prince: Charles, coronation and climate change.
Charles finally got his crown, but the kingdom he inherits is spinning apart.
Deadly poker game: The moral gamble of the Lusitania.
The Lusitania disaster was a terrible collision of chutzpah on one side and naïvete on the other.
"Chimborazo": the environmental romanticism of Frederic Edwin Church.
This 1864 painting is a beautiful example of Romantic-era environmental consciousness.
Retro future queen: the QE2's brief heyday as a 1960s design icon.
For three years after its introduction in 1969, the QE2 was the floating embodiment of that bizarre age.
Historic Photo: Nagasaki, Japan, 1865.
The medieval future: Villeneuve's "Dune" through the lens of history.
This science fiction film set in the distant future has a lot of elements that hark back to the past.