The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of ...

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman looks beyond the empty tomb to find perhaps ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Alexander Hamilton. The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor; he used original documents to ...

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could ...

In the cover story of our March 2012 issue, Roger Moorhouse wrote an absorbing account of Welthauptstadt Germania, or 'World Capital Germania', Hitler's wildly ambitious plan to rebuild Berlin into ...

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 ...