January 2017 (Issue 38)

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Georgian

Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Roman

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire