History Today

A major conflict in the Chilean War of Independence was fought on 12 February 1817.

The decree that led to the internment of Japanese-Americans was passed on 19 February 1942.

The earliest surviving written evidence of a Romance language, the Oaths of Strasbourg were sworn on February 14th, 842.

A blueprint and justification for future Russian expansion was signed on January 30th, 1667.

The Byzantine Empire's ban on the veneration of icons died with its last iconoclast emperor on January 20th, 842.

Europeans have long sought a route through the Arctic Ocean, linking the Atlantic with the Pacific. Despite many failures, the lure of the Northwest Passage has enjoyed remarkable longevity. 

An erudite study of the environmental price paid by the growth of early modern London, which looks to be repeated in present-day Beijing.

Attempts to control the spread of bank note forgery in India have proven ineffective and dangerous.

The dead, white, male canon has not merely stifled African-American history so much as smothered it. One author has spent her career grappling with the problem of America’s whitewashed past, writes Alexander Lee.