Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the ...

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

In 1877 H.E. Sullivan, the British representative at the court of the Travancore maharajah, ventured into somewhat delicate territory: the education of the state’s young princes. As was later recorded ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for centuries despite its obvious faultlines. What held it together? At the end ...

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The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs on 2 January 1492.

Aware that palaeontology’s pace quickly rendered old interpretations obsolete, Cope and Marsh made only limited attempts to ...

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...