Giovanni Morell—later Morelli—was born in Vernona on 25 February 1816 beginning a lifetime of dedication to the art of the ...
Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard Evans asks what manner of men made themselves the Führer’s ‘paladins’. The indiscriminate use of ‘Nazi’ to describe anything to do with German ...
The survival of the papacy has always been dependent on a precarious balancing act between the pope’s religious and secular ...
The idea of the cult represents the very core of the American Dream’ Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at ...
As Late Imperial China sought to rebuild as a modern state from the ashes of war, a new national post office was born.
The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.
The largest legal confrontation in 19th-century France began not over revolutionary machines or innovative pharmaceutical products, but musical instruments. This was a time when the economy was in a ...
In his memoirs, the American air force general Curtis LeMay reflected on the results of the devastating air raid he had ordered on the crowded central zones of the Japanese capital, Tokyo, in March ...