The history of Black people challenges whitewashed narratives.

From the Caribbean to the Indian subcontinent, and from the southern tip of Africa to the islands of Southeast Asia, the reach of Europe’s colonial powers was huge, and often violently enforced. A ...

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, ...

Emerging in the late Ottoman era, Jewish scholars studied a vast array of works by medieval Arab scholars to establish a body ...

The Kariakoo market in Dar es Salaam has recently been in the headlines, chiefly because Her Excellency the President opened ...

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

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, ...

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 ...