Castro’s Honeymoon
Holding court to the world in a hotel in Harlem.
History Today
Taking Note
Good references are invaluable, not just to give credit, but to build a map of the paths taken for research.
Could the Soviet Union Have Survived?
We ask four historians of the Cold War whether the demise of the USSR was as inevitable as it now seems.
Who’s the Reader?
How medieval manuscripts reveal the reading communities of the early Middle Ages.
The Only Ones Left
Children’s accounts of surviving the Holocaust.
Wishful Thinking
The tolerant and worryingly modern Vikings.
Birth of a Freedom Fighter
Nat Turner, leader of one of the most significant rebellions in the antebellum South, was born on 2 October 1800.
The Shanghai Race Club
Though horse racing was a symbol of British colonialism, it became a surprisingly inclusive pastime in China’s major International Settlement.
Saving Old Havana
Cuba’s built heritage owes a personal debt.
Buying Nazism
In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.