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

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 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 ...

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

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) ...

Between 1288 and 1300 European merchants competed with one another to obtain the right to collect duties on wine shipments to the port of Tunis on behalf of the Hafsid caliph who ruled the city.

In the summer of 1992 a senior British army officer was given the chance to visit Russia and Kyrgyzstan. His trip would have been unthinkable for most of the century then approaching its end. Now he ...