History

U2 planted the seeds for The Joshua Tree during an existential journey through America. As Irishmen in the 1970s, the band grew up with the belief ...

In 1938, Arthur Calder-Marshall, a young British novelist and communist visited Trinidad, just a year after the Butler Riots had rocked the oil-bel...

Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957 to 1961. His relationships with Vietnamese pr...

Drawing heavily on recently declassified sources, this examination of German wartime intelligence services traces the logistical and strategic e...

Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora...

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hosp...

Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kk kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel gui...

Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New Engl...

This first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotlands capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tourism industry of Bavaria consistently promoted an image of 'grounded modernity'. This r...

From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. ...

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a p...

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan''s life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illu...

The First Polish Armoured Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its com...

On the night of 14/15 August 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the south-east of Moscow. Flying past the So...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has carried out her role as Sovereign with flawless professionalism. Her demeanour has been perfect, and in the seve...