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 Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.
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 ...
A battle of wills between Adolphe Sax and musical instrument makers in 19th-century France saw an unprecedented legal contest ...