History: Specific Events & Topics

''The best book about the subject I have ever read'' Max Hastings, Sunday Times''Halik Kochanski''s Resistance reads less like a work of history an...

Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ''Jerusalem'', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. Hi...

In his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American Wor...

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, ...

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, ...

The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urba...

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...

Preserving the legacy of one of the twentieth century''s most influential advocates for peace and justice, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., i...

A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washingtons fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate toda...

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Bo...

From its obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Pot...

This absorbing book explores all aspects of life in that feared institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked there to the poor s...

Alfred L. Brophy's University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Univers...

100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Irelands creativ...

Genocide is one of the most heinous abuses of human rights imaginable, yet reaction to it by European governments in the post-Cold War world has be...

The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the ...

The sport of mountaineering was pioneered 150 years ago by a diverse cross-section of Victorians, following in the footsteps of earlier local explo...

The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally ...

The publication of ''''An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology'''' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, origi...

Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies...