African women have resisted oppression for generations. From Nigeria’s Aba Women’s War to Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, ...

A rare 1918 South African tax receipt resurfaced online, revealing how only a small elite paid income tax and sparking debate ...

Among the consequences of the rise and fall of empires in the last couple of centuries has been the formation, in the territories they formerly governed, of the political entities we call nations; ...

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded ...

Originally written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in highly Sanskritised Bengali, Vande Mataram was composed in the 1870s ...

In modern history, four great empires have risen and fallen: Ottoman, Mughal, Qing China and British. A fifth stands at its apogee but also at a precipice: the United States. Can America’s fall be ...

The showcase features numerous colonial ethnographic photographs and photographic material related to the inhabitants of ...

Empires are falling. New possibilities are rising. History has opened a door. This time, Jamaica must walk through it, not as an echo of Europe, not as a satellite of Babylon, but as a conscious actor ...

It’s a long journey from the mountains of North Carolina to the ICE-covered, winter streets of Minneapolis. One of our ...

Students joined visiting fiber artists to work on an embroidered panel depicting South Carolina’s Revolutionary War history.

The connection, visible in the country’s everyday life, did not begin with governments but with maritime trade even before ...