In 238 CE, Rome’s Senate defied Maximinus Thrax, recognized the Gordians, and elected Pupienus and Balbinus. Victory...
History
History connects people and societies across time, revealing how past choices continue to shape the present. Read accounts and interpretations drawn from cultures around the world.
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...
National Archives records reveal the people behind the Spanish-American War, from soldiers and sailors to USS Maine...
France’s La Gloire and Britain’s HMS Warrior transformed naval power, forcing rival states into an escalating contest...
From William Howard Taft at Griffith Stadium to Barack Obama at Nationals Park, archival photographs trace the...
Alcohol addiction remains a significant challenge today, affecting individuals, families and communities across the US, UK and...
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...
In 399 BCE, Dionysius I gathered Mediterranean artisans at Syracuse, armed for renewed war with Carthage, and...
Congressional records trace baseball’s transformation from touring entertainment to national institution, documenting conflicts over antitrust law, player...
Decades of excavation along the Thames uncovered Londinium’s timber quays, warehouses, vessels, and imported cargoes, revealing how...
An elegant family promenade becomes a map of race and status as Agostino Brunias uses dress, complexion,...
From Lancelot and Elaine to Romeo, Juliet, and Ophelia, medieval and Renaissance literature imagined love as a...
Opened in Newport in 1763, Touro Synagogue remains North America’s oldest standing synagogue building, linking colonial Jewish...
Wills made medieval merchants seem narrowly devotional, but inventories and manuscripts reveal Londoners reading literature, chronicles, practical...
In 1994, Suharto’s government revoked Tempo’s publishing license. Ahmad Taufik and fellow reporters answered by forming AJI...
After Xerxes’ defeat, the Ionian cities entered a transformed Aegean where Persian power endured even as Athens...