History

The history of ancient Egypt is filled with fascinating queens and goddesses portrayed side by side with their male counterparts as equal partners,...

Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteere...

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks path to democracy and examine the connection betwe...

How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has largely deve...

Beginning in 1915, the Gallipoli Campaign was intended to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia, st...

Exciting and fascinating, Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its many historical, political, social, and liter...

In 1919, Hermann Goering went to Denmark as a stunt flyer, then on to Sweden to fly passengers, one of whom introduced the daredevil to his future ...

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing million...

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the...

This work investigates attempts by Bulgarian Communist Party leaders, bureaucrats and subjects to model, disseminate, and appropriate a local versi...

The Roman Town at Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, was a working archaeological dig the University of Reading Field School which took place every s...

While the central ideal of Roman philosophy exemplified by Lucretius, Cicero and Seneca appears to be the masculine values of self-sufficiency and ...

Railways kill! We forget that now as British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of lessons learnt fr...

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did J...