In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael ...

In 13th-century England excommunication was akin to spiritual leprosy. How did it work?

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce and Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of ...

Whether as ‘Gloriana’ or ‘Good Queen Bess’ Elizabeth I is one of England’s most iconic monarchs, but did her gender shape her ...

European intelligence agencies assisted Mossad’s Wrath of God assassination campaign, while their governments condemned them.

In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.

In Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea, Luka Ivan Jukic makes the case for Mitteleuropa as a time that land forgot.

By 1240, it was a fully fledged military order of the Catholic Church (established on the pattern of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller) and its forces were active in many theatres of war, especially ...

On a November night in 1588 Lawrence Jackson stood waiting at the gates of Fawsley Hall, a manor house on the outskirts of Northampton. Housekeeper at Fawsley for more than a decade, he was used to ...

Wild celebrations erupted in Washington DC on Saturday, September 7th 1850, when the Bill which made California the thirty-first state of the United States was passed by the House of Representatives.

During the early period of the Islamic empire, following the Prophet’s death in 630, armies were primarily composed of Arab warriors, with slaves and freedmen (often referred to as mawali or clients) ...

Though the European single currency may seem modern, its roots go back to the 9th-century Christiana religio coins of Louis the Pious.