History Today

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.

The world does not influence Britain’s native culture, the world is its culture, as anyone with a grasp of the country’s history will understand, argues Suzannah Lipscomb.

The meaning of revolution is ever-changing. David Armitage shows how events in recent history have caused a revolution in the meaning of revolution. 

When Joe Biden said ‘God save the Queen’, was he heralding the end of the republic?

Salò was Mussolini’s German-backed experiment in ‘real Fascism’ and fine living. Italians find it hard to come to terms with its legacy.

The frontiersman and showman died on January 10, 1917.