Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! Last week, we made history by covering a small skirmish in the great patchwork of conflicts that is the Eastern Front during World War II. While ...

While most people associate imperial rule with endogenous empires, Barfield focuses on the exogenous examples—the "shadow ...

A study of images of soldiers from the Crimean to the Iraq War examined how images may be just as significant for what they ...

The SAS marked its 50th Anniversary with a three-day groundbreaking international conference at Harvard University and the ...

Some critics maintain that the poem was actually a prophetic pre-history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, as Melville brilliantly considers the friction between science and issues of faith and doub ...

By Bedross Der Matossian In 1894, the American archeologist Frederick J. Bliss made a seminal discovery: a richly decorated ...

Truman Capote was a mix of confidence, honesty, ego and outrage – usually all at once. In the last book he wrote: “I’m an ...

From swish cafes and arty parties to assassinations and all-out war, Lebanon's capital has seen it all in the past 100 years.

Elections in the absolute monarchy are fraudulent, but saw support for Palestinian Hamas surge, with the Islamic Action Front ...

The final neighbourhood, Kanlica, is renowned for wooden Ottoman-era mansions overlooking the Bosphorus, and thick yoghurt ...

Saar says each of the monument’s seats — an ottoman, a bar stool ... “But she was also an activist for African American and civil rights and also for LGBTQ+ rights and a feminist and ...