The lifelong rivalry of two early modern Neapolitan printers was a battle of books, power, and, ultimately, fire.

Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change.

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and Christianity itself. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman ...

This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, where the goddess Athena, descending from Olympus, alighted; the entrance ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...

The Prussian Kingdom was founded on January 18th, 1701, when the Elector Frederick III had himself crowned Frederick I at Konigsberg. Prussia, which was to become a byword for German militarism and ...

Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and ...

Childbirth in the early modern period was a battleground between midwives and surgeons. The Chamberlen family of surgeons ...

They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...

Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens.

The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John ...

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