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 rapid surrender of Japan in 1945 certainly suggested that the United States possessed the most decisive of weapons. Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less ...

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

Except for aliens, there are more conspiracy theories about history than anything else. There are people who believe that Shakespeare’s plays were really by the Earl of Oxford, that JFK was ...

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 ...

The period of Russian rule in California has almost been forgotten; but, though nothing survives of the little fortress that once commanded a river flowing out into Bodega Bay, they call it Russian ...