Jousting deaths could change dynasties, extinguish noble bloodlines, and shift the balance of power throughout medieval Europe. But medieval…
Greek mythology influenced nearly every aspect of life in the ancient Greek world. The Greeks used myths to explain…
The best books on the history of Ireland do more than supply dry lists of kings, rebellions, famines, and…
The Dreyfus Affair began with a charge that became a national crisis: a Jewish officer in the French Army…
Napoleon Bonaparte was a revolutionary general who did something unthinkable for 19th-century Europe: he crowned himself. In an era…
The Nuremberg Trial was the first time in the world that the community sought to prosecute mass atrocity on…
The Bronze Age collapse is one of history’s biggest “it looked stable—until it didn’t” moments. Between 1200 and 1100…
The Trojan War is the most famous war story- but was it myth, memory, or history? Homer’s epic poems…
Cleopatra VII was more than a romantic myth. She was also a ruler who made desperate efforts to save…
Hammurabi’s Code- inscribed on a stone monument that helped create a certain idea of law: not as a private…
