'Each revolution must be assessed in its own context, each had a distinctive impact. The revolutions spread from one point to another. They interacted to a limited extent. … The drama of each revolution unfolded separately. Each had its own heroes, its own crises. Each therefore demands its own narrative...
Presented by 40 indignant English barons to their treacherous king in 1215, it has endured as perhaps the world’s first and best declaration of the rule of law. But some say that theory is a misreading of history.
The document’s fame rests on huge myths. But those myths have become their own reality.
ROBERT GOODWIN is research fellow at University College London and author of “Crossing the Continent 1527-1540” (2009) and “Spain: The Centre of the World,...
Two hundred years ago, the decisive Battle of Waterloo was fought near Brussels, commemorated over the weekend by thousands of reenactors staging battles in period uniforms.
Three hundred years after the monarch's death, the industry is still seasonal, corporate, media-driven, and French.
Over a million people died in the Irish Famine of 1845-1850. Many in government sat back, believing the crisis had been sent by God for Ireland’s improvement.
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact
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Thousands of volunteers have helped to uncover the full extent of the population collapse caused by the epidemic
The Reformation changed the ideological contours of Europe, and many other parts of the world, by toppling the traditional sources of authority.
