History

Freud said dreams were the royal road to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedel...

On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a polit...

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against...

Many historic houses decorating Skip Finley's native Martha's Vineyard were originally built by whaling captains. Whether in his village of Oak Blu...

Many books have been written about military parachuting, in particular about famous parachute operations like Crete and Arnhem in the Second World ...

Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India ...

The history of the Irish Brigade remains fascinating more than three centuries after its creation in the late seventeenth century and is regularly ...

The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic.Simón Bolivar's ...

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wa...

The Archbishop of Canterbury called him bloody rude, courtiers feared he was a foreign interloper out for the goodies, daughter-in-law Sarah Fergus...