German Africans or Germans Abroad?

Although it continued to live on in the memories of its former victims or enemies, in Japan itself memories of empire were excised from the public imagination through selective commemoration and emphasis on the victimhood of ordinary people...

By narrowly defining slavery as limited to the U.S. South and the West Indies, ethical capitalists were able to argue that ‘nothing was a bad as white-owned plantation slavery, and therefore everything else could be described as ethical capitalism’...

Atlantic news in the 1650s and its coverage of war and empire often underscored the impact of temporal and geographical distance...

Consider the Georgian terrace, now a widely admired model of traditional city-building. Its most important material was not those of which it was ostensibly made, but coal...

The ancient Greek world did not have an understanding of what is now understood by international law, but there were unwritten norms regarding warfare...

How collaborative are ruler personality cults?

The boiling down and pressing of cattle meat to produce tinned beef, such as the flagship Fray Bentos corned beef, was a much-improved version of Liebig’s method...

Coulson establishes the broader historical context for the formation of “Asian” as a race in America by pointing to immigration patterns that created economic competition in places like California...

During the months of the liberation of France, British politicians and diplomats established that it was their duty to help restore the image of France in Britain because France was their main partner for engaging in discussion about the creation of a western bloc...

It was an “infernal machine” comprised of a clock, a pistol trigger mechanism, moving cogs and bars of a soft, chemical-smelling material...

What is the value of silver and gold in the middle of the ocean?

The queer coding in magazines like Bachelor wasn’t just meant to wink at queer readers...

Scratched on the wall of a mine is the very first attempt at something we use every day: the alphabet...

A peculiar idiosyncrasy marked the appearance of the word ‘utopia’ in Chinese...

Among Juwayeyi’s most important contributions is the argument that the Maravi state predated the expansion of Indian Ocean trade into the region...

The era’s greatest promoter of astronomy was Jai Singh II, the 18th-century raja of Jaipur...

I had been watching the growth of open source software and I had this concept of a free encyclopedia...

In 1913, a group of seven Americans headed north from New York City. Their mission was to find and explore Crocker Land, an unexplored island or perhaps small continent...

The Steppe sky remains...

Geographically vulnerable as most harbors are, Chrysopolis was better suited to commerce than war. This is why nothing remains of its Roman or Byzantine origins...