The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

Born Giovanni Morell in Verona on 25 February 1816, the Italianised ‘Morelli’ came later. He was educated in Switzerland and then Germany, where he studied anatomy and qualified as a doctor. An ardent ...

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw views the conflict through the sad case of ...

The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.

The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...