Constantinople, the contemporary city of Istanbul in Turkey, was the capital city of the Roman Empire for more than a thousand years. Rising from an ancient Greek colony established in the 7th century ...

Objects from East Africa reached as far as China owing to the Swahili, a Bantu-speaking people with a unique blend of African ...

Unleashing a global ideology that changed the world, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels altered the course of history.

Adolf Hitler began his political career in 1919 and secured his first state office in 1933. He then became the dictator of ...

The Day of the Dead originated not as a party but as a sacred Aztec ritual honoring Mictēcacihuātl, the Queen of the ...

The 1548 Battle of Uedahara demonstrated that skillful use of even rudimentary firepower could challenge elite military ...

In the latter half of the 19th century, sweeping reforms laid the foundations for a newer and more powerful Japan.

Before the Spanish and Portuguese empires dominated the seas, Scandinavian Vikings reached the shores of America, Africa and ...

When America chose to bomb Japan, the imperial capital city of Japan was not a practical choice for various reasons.

Pablo Picasso, Blind minotaur guided by a Girl in the Night, from La Suite Vollard, 1934, image courtesy of Christie’s MA Contemporary Art Theory, BA Fine Art Rosie is a contributing writer and artist ...

After World War II, the nation of Yugoslavia was an Eastern European socialist state that was proudly independent of fealty to the Soviet Union. However, when the Soviet Union crumbled, Yugoslavia ...

Jacques Lacan is known for his controversial approach to psychoanalysis. The three orders—Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real—are used in Jacques Lacan’s thought to subdivide features of psychoanalytic ...