Historiography

From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these prev...

The Trkh al-fattsh is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars ...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions b...

A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter New York Times ...

Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled...

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses i...

More ink has probably been spilled on Akhenaten and his times (`the Amarna Period') than any other figure from ancient Egypt, with a vast range of ...

Rien ne parait aujourd''hui plus simple que d''envoyer une carte postale depuis l''etranger ou de joindre par telephone les antipodes. Les reseaux ...

In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as living, as it were, in the Stone Age. For the most part, politicians and scholars have since le...

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for ano...

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a wide...