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Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden hands behind the Old Testament.

Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

An enfant terrible shook up Renaissance medicine by denouncing experts and debunking accepted wisdom. Was Paracelsus as radical as he seemed?

The First World War revealed the bad state of Britain’s teeth. Intervention was required to keep the nation biting fit.

In Patria: Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair explores nine nations, dissolved or imagined, and what they tell us about Latin America.

Where fraught national histories are concerned, do policies of remembrance and education work, or is it better to wipe the slate clean?

The ancient stones of churches are portals to the past. Each new generation becomes a custodian.

Misfit, Old West villain or tragic hero of the O.K. Corral: who was the real Doc Holliday?

Can The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra and The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies fashion a finale for the pharaohs?

Ancient Roman election advice suggested some uncomfortable campaign strategies. Evidence from Pompeii suggests many candidates followed it enthusiastically.