Explore our ‘By Continent’ category, featuring meticulously researched articles that chronicle the unique historical events and figures that shaped each continent’s rich heritage.
The Children’s Crusade began in 1212, when crowds of young people and poor travelers left their homes in France…
Joan of Arc is one of the most celebrated figures from the Middle Ages, but she’s also one of…
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…
The best books on African history have the power to transform the way you see the world. Africa is…
Greek secret societies are a perennial source of fascination because they promise to show us a side of Greece…
Movies are full of them. Meme pages thrive on them. Myths about medieval life contain a lot of misinformation,…
In 711, a small landing initiated the Umayyad Conquest, a process that would change the Iberian Peninsula for centuries. If…
The fall of Rome didn’t happen in a day. There was a year. Then five years. A decade of…
