In nineteenth-century Istanbul, European fashion spread through women’s social contacts, revealing class divisions and bringing Muslim and...
Images and surviving objects offer clues to Greek middle-class women’s lives under Ottoman rule and how possessions...
In occupied Yugoslavia, Tito’s Partisans fought for liberation while rival Chetniks and competing Allied interests shaped a...
Medieval English priests imagined both women and men using love magic, revealing varied beliefs about desire and...
Liberals who rejected Gladstone’s Home Rule bill went from cabinet dissent to campaigning against their own leader....
Debates over Lorca’s sexuality helped reshape Spanish literary criticism. Queer readings challenged inherited exclusions and explored how...
Before D-Day, some English villagers were evacuated for Allied training. In Normandy, civilians endured the fighting as...
On June 6, 1944, the 16th Infantry Regiment landed under devastating fire at Omaha Beach. Despite nearly...
In 1851, Urquiza took Rosas’s resignation offers at face value and reclaimed Entre Ríos’s delegated powers. The...
Steven W. Holloway traces how reports and images of Nineveh crossed the Atlantic, shaping nineteenth-century Americans’ ideas...
In 1465, Juan Pacheco and his allies stripped Henry IV’s effigy of royal authority and proclaimed Alfonso...
In 238 CE, Rome’s Senate defied Maximinus Thrax, recognized the Gordians, and elected Pupienus and Balbinus. Victory...
A 1955 advice letter pitted love against financial security. Italian diaries complicate that choice, revealing how family...
At Dura-Europos on the Euphrates, Roman soldiers lived among diverse communities. Their doomed defenses preserved religious wall...
Images of women making textiles meant more than daily labor in ancient Iberia. As household production expanded,...
With few garments surviving, portraits and dowry records reveal how imported fashions shaped women’s dress across 18th-century...
Chaucer’s Monk wears fine clothes and prizes hunting despite his vows. Martin Laidlaw reads his portrayal and...
The Canadian Museum of History traces the enslavement of Indigenous people and Africans in New France and...
Alpine singers inspired American folk-singing families, whose harmonies blackface troupes adapted in the 1840s. The borrowed style...
From the years before the Civil War onward, composers put baseball to music. Historic sheet music from...
National Archives photographs show African Americans serving in the military and supporting the war at home. This...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin captivated readers before the Civil War. Its changing reception reveals how an antislavery bestseller...
Elizabeth Richardson joined the American Red Cross in 1944 and served GIs from Clubmobiles overseas. Her letters...
Acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1974, the Anne Schofield Collection brings together about 1,000...
Florence dominates the familiar Renaissance story, but Bruges was a center of change north of the Alps....
Ordered by Emperor Hadrian in 122 CE, the wall stretched across northern Britain to control movement. Its...
Long before the United States acknowledged weapons in orbit, Program 437 kept nuclear-armed Thor missiles on alert...
France’s La Gloire and Britain’s HMS Warrior transformed naval power, forcing rival states into an escalating contest...
Hongi Hika’s firearms advantage gave Ngāpuhi extraordinary power, but it also compelled rival iwi to arm, fortify...
In 1139, Lateran II condemned the use of crossbowmen and archers against Christians. Canon 29 entered church...