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Tim Brinkhof
Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch-born, New York-based journalist reporting on art, history, and literature. He studied early Netherlandish painting and Slavic literature at New York University, worked as an editorial assistant for Film Comment magazine, and has written for Esquire, Film & History, History Today, and History News Network.
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Whether in Russia or China, the secret police are defined by their unquestioning loyalty — as well as by their poor career prospects.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
Studying the display of personal wealth across time can help us better understand the history of socioeconomic inequality.