History Matters

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Never fully exorcised, the memory of Italy’s fascist past is fading.

The diaries of a young teacher reveal the complexities of racial tensions in the Gold Coast.

A translator alters more than a text’s language, turning the process into a political statement.

As technology changes, so do ideas about the borders of the self and the nature of privacy.

The worst monsters to the Anglo-Saxon mind were those who thought like humans but chose to act differently.

President Trump’s recent foreign adventures are unlikely to match Nixon’s actions of July and August 1971 in historic significance.

Why is the siege such a popular and controversial imperial episode?

In their quest to collect all the knowledge of the known world, Roman authors also recorded the strange and the fabulous.

When does a boy become a man? Medieval millennials were just as hard to define as those of today.

The unusual circumstances of the founding of New Orleans have had lasting impact on its culture.