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 ...

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

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

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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?

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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.

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 ...

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.