Examining major European twentieth-century narratives and interpretations that have seen it as an age of violence, terror,...
Europe
European history follows a continent shaped by changing borders and encounters among diverse peoples. Read about the societies and events that transformed Europe and influenced the wider world.
The Migration Period is typically regarded as beginning with the invasion of Europe by the Huns from...
The full range of consumer goods of the period was set out to tempt the shopper and...
During the Holocaust, the remaining Hasidic centres in Eastern Europe were destroyed and the Hasidim who lived there...
The issue of inter-state relations illustrates the political relevance of changing concepts of borders in early modern...
By one interpretation of the historiography criterion, Southeastern Europe enters protohistory only with Homer. At any rate,...
After the crisis of the EDC, European integration focused on the economic field as the best way...
The League aimed to protect trade, which meant that maintaining peace was also a major concern. Introduction...
By Dr. Pieter C. Emmer (left) and Dr. Leo Lucassen (right)Emmer: Professor Emeritus of HistoryLucassen: Professor...
AÂ narrower concept of “East Central Europe” remains the dominant one in the German-speaking countries. By Dr. Joachim...
Photo credit illustration by Zoran Svilar European leaders are today imposing new forms of colonialism on the...
Original designs for battleship HMS Dreadnought, produced by the British Royal Navy in 1905 / British Library,...
Silbury Hill Neolithic mound. It stands 30 metres high and 160 metres wide, and comprises half a...
Cereal in West Kennet (Wiltshire, United Kingdom). Copyright © Victor Jimenez Jaimez 2014 – Creative Commons Attribution...
Nordic Sámi (Saami) people in Sapmi (Lapland) in front of two Lavvo Tents / Photo by Granbergs...
Arms and armors of a typical noble Frankish warrior, 5th-6th century / Photo by Altaipanther, Germanisches Nationalmuseum,...
During the period of 1524 until 1648, Europe was plagued by wars of religion. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew...
The Café Griensteidl in Vienna, watercolour by Reinhold Voelkel, 1896. / Getty Images The idea of a...
Hagia Sophia / Photo by Arild Vågen, Wikimedia Commons It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of...
Portuguese Fort Aguada, Goa, India / Photo by Abhijit Nandi, Creative Commons Beginning in the early modern age, European...
Hendrick Avercamp’s ‘Ice Scene’ (c. 1610). Wikimedia Commons The function of fashion as a form of cultural transfer in...
1750 map of America / museumoutlets.com By Dr. Marcus Gräser / 02.08.2011 Professor of History Institut für Neuere...
Slurp and thank the Yamnaya. Samantha Jade Royds/Flickr, CC BY-SA Shedding light on how have traits that were rare in African ancestors became...
Ancient DNA can tell you a lot more than skull shape about the origins of the first...
Krishna Uprooting the Parijata Tree from a Bhagavata Purana manuscript, 1525–50, made in Delhi region or Rajasthan, India. Opaque watercolor...
Soviet leaders Red Square, Moscow, USSR celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution / Photo by L.Y....
Overview of Pueblo Bonito / Photo by John Wiley, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. P. Scott Corbett, et.al. Professor...
Armenians marched by Ottoman soldiers / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Markus Koller / 01.10.2012 Professor of History...
“We should make sure that the revolution is transmitted!” /Â CC-BY-NC 2.0Â doc(q)man By Dr. Frederick C. Schneid /...
Departure of the Conscripts in 1807, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808 / Musée Carnavalet via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Ambrogio...