Volume 54 Issue 1 January 2004

Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.

Anubha Charan describes the arguments surrounding one of the world’s most politically explosive excavations.

In the middle of the 19th century, Korea was isolated from the rest of the world and unknown. Many attempts were made to open it.

France ceded Naples to Spain on January 31st, 1504.

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

The first-ever parliament of the Sudan was opened by the British governor-general, Sir Robert Howe, on January 1st, 1954.