The tour that the Quapaws gave French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673. English, Spanish, French, and a ...

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

Early 17th-century machines were intricate, impressive, responsive, and lively in equal measure. Even so, for Descartes just ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident.

Clifford got within ten yards of him, but it was too late. A lifeboat fished them both out of the water. The man, floating ...

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, was riding high. In a series of brilliant victories from Austerlitz to Jena and Friedland he had defeated the armies of Austria, Prussia and Russia ...

The son of a weakling father and in turn the father of a weakling son, Edward I was one of the most formidable and effective of all English kings. Standing six foot two inches tall, he had an ...

A huge bestseller and undisputed guide to the Nazi worldview, did Germans actually read Mein Kampf?

In the late 18th century the island of Java was rocked by the waves of a political tsunami emanating from Europe. As the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars – together constituting the ...