History: Specific Events & Topics

The Chilembwe (or Nyasaland) Rising of January 1915 is one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of resistance in southern Africa. A smal...

Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army...

Doctors and patients alike trust the medical profession and its therapeutic powers; yet this trust has often been misplaced. Whether prescribing op...

There is no better record of events than The New York Times, and now The Times of the Sixties captures the history, culture, and personalities of t...

A celebration of over 100 years of queer creativity, featuring 70 outstanding works of drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. ...

The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a travel...

The authors trace the emergence of Ataturk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, which led to the in...

An examination of French to English translation in medieval England, through the genre of the prologue. The prologue to Layamon's Brut recounts it...