The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...

The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing brings folklore’s most famous double act out of the shadowy realm of legend ...

As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.

American air raids on Japan’s capital burned the city in March 1945, killing 80,000 people in one night alone. ‘Had to be ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

Tool of social control or check on tyranny? The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki crafts a history for the herd. Rulers misleading their people, from the Discussions of Varro by Maïtre ...

A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...

Geoffrey Parker is Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History at the Ohio State ...

In medieval Europe beavers were hunted extensively, which led, by the 12th and 13th centuries, to their extinction in England and Wales, and in Denmark by the tenth century. The animals were killed ...