Hating the British Empire is nothing new. Indeed, it has been the primary occupation of the academy since about 1960. Not without exceptions, of course. The prolific Jeremy Black’s Imperial Legacies ...

Itinerary of François Pyrard de Laval includes a visit to "Inde." On a chilly afternoon in February 1611, the town of Laval, a prosperous mercantile conurbation on the River Mayenne in northwest ...

The KUOW Book Club is embarking on a winter series of book talks in partnership with The Seattle Public Library this month.

My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to ...

Donkeys entered Namibia’s central north relatively late, and only became common in the 1920s and 1930s. Their presence across ...

WILLIAMSBURG — At just 4 years old, Ethan Rose is already something of a budding history enthusiast. Last year, the preschooler from Washington, D.C., had an archaeology phase, and right now, his ...

Progressives Struggle to Take America’s Side in a Fight So many American civic holidays of my youth seem to be getting the axe these days, in our modern age of woke rejectionism: intolerable public ...

African leaders used a gathering in Algiers on Sunday to revive a long-standing demand for the world to formally acknowledge colonial-era abuses, treat them as crimes under international law and ...

John Gast, "American Progress" (1872), oil on canvas, 12 3/4 inch x 16 3/4 inch (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons, painting in possession of Autry Museum of the American West) As I continued to play ...