History: Specific Events & Topics

The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future sinc...

The numerous items of everyday material culture that we employ in housework, cleaning, office work and entertainment are more than mere disposable ...

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's hi...

The power and status of English male elites were not merely inherited at birth but developed through everyday interactions with family, peers and g...

This examination of French trade with Asia analyzes France's attempt to establish a mercantile empire in the East by breaking into the lucrative ma...

On the north end of London lies an old nonconformist burial ground named Bunhill Fields. Bunhill became the final resting place for some of the mos...

Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the...

Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death i...

In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan'...

As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a resu...

Latinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina inf...

'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . ....

Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. ...

In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-s...