Giovanni Morell—later Morelli—was born in Verona on 25 February 1816 beginning a lifetime of dedication to the art of the ...

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

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 ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, its centrally planned economy went down with it. But the end was also a beginning: from a business point of view the birth of the Russian Federation meant ...

In medieval Europe beavers were hunted extensively, which led, by the 12th and 13th centuries, to their extinction in England and Wales, and in Denmark by the tenth century. The animals were killed ...

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend. The Brothers Grimm, alongside the likes of the Wright brothers and the ...

Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphs from the eighth century. In 1248, however, Genghis Khan’s grandson Möngke became great khan of the Mongols and resolved to extend his sway to the Middle ...