Was the Glorious Revolution illegal?

Political indoctrination became an important strategy alongside moral instruction...

The same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind...

Why was the family heir sent abroad, often when still a teenager, at a time when travel was indisputably and widely acknowledged to be dangerous?

Colonizationism was not merely a part of the debate over wartime emancipation but rather reflected the United States’ race-based imperial ambitions...

Recent excavations reveal much about the conduct of siege warfare during the Anarchy and its intersection with larger societal trends...

Before writing off animal trials as irrational acts of an ignorant and superstitious past, consider some recent examples...

Those in the African colonies, had created a new national identity for themselves as German Africans (Deutsch Afrikaners), rejecting the label of Germans abroad (Auslandsdeutsche) that the metropole used...

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...