In The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 Jonathan Healey holds Juntos and ‘jittery times’ responsible for England’s ...

When Francisco Franco died in November 1975 the enduring image of the country he had ruled for almost four decades was of a ...

A routine Native American cattle round-up at the US-Mexico border in 1898 became an international incident.

The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington looks beyond the warming ...

Depending on one’s vantage point, the meaning of the French Revolution varies. The First Republic succumbed to an imperial ...

The wine trade in medieval Tunis was lucrative, but it caused a moral quandary for the ruling Hafsids.

Though his relics are reviled, his impact is more keenly felt than ever. Can The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes by ...

The names ‘Alcock’ and ‘Brown’ – when appearing together – have faded so far from public awareness that they are most likely to appear as the unexpected answer to a trivia question about the identity ...

As a young man, the not-yet-famous philosopher René Descartes lived for a while in a very famous place: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 20 km outside Paris, where French kings had been building magnificent ...

America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin finds a place for Latin America and its ideals in the story of the United States.

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker sheds light on the Soviet Union’s undercover intelligence gathering.

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels finds that the son of God is more than the sum of his parts. In the New Testament, Jesus is a charismatic miracle healer. He ...