Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution...
As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early...
For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a...
Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered...
Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for...
In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations....
The book of Genesis records the fiery fate of Sodom and Gomorrah—a storm of fire and brimstone was sent from heaven and, for the...
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early...
Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem's Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli...
Instructive, amusing, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper...
Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the...
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from...
This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule....
David Livingstone, the 'missionary-explorer', has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in...
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers...
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