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In reality, Byzantium was also a pragmatic and down-to-earth culture—it developed sophisticated systems for taxation, justice, administration, and ... (2017)
How to make Europe work better, without the tears. The European Onion is a joke whose time has come (2026)
Cyprus. Fifty years of division. There seems no prospect for the reunification of the island, half a century after turkey invaded the north. The i... (2024)
Political tumult is now the norm in the country | The Americas (2024)
It goes to the essence of the Jewish state, and of the American one | United States (2023)
The stock-market crash, not high FDR-era taxes, caused the ‘great leveling’ of the middle 20th century. By Phillip W. Magness and Vincent Gelos... (2022)
In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How? How and why did the modern w... (2021)
So much of what we “know” about the battle at the Alamo is provably wrong (2021)
The slaughter of the Herero was genocide, says Berlin | Europe (2021)
Catchy lyrics in the idiom of the Inca Empire | The Americas (2021)
European citizenship makes the people of Martinique and Sint Maarten richer, but not content | The Americas (2021)
An assassination attempt on a former president jolts the atoll nation | Asia (2021)
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's proble... (2021)
How the EU started speaking French when it comes to the economy (2020)
But thirty years after reunification, it is finding its stride (2020)
But it has a lot more to do (2020)
We ask four historians whether the demise of one of the 20th century’s superpowers was as inevitable as it now seems. Rodric Braithwaite, Britis... (2020)
Paganism is experiencing a global revival as more people are reconnecting with nature. Here are five traditional ancient celebrations around the wo... (2020)
North America's largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes. (2020)
As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. (2020)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday recognized about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land and overturned a tribe member's rape convi... (2020)
When the Red Cross began charging soldiers for snacks during World War II, it learned a painful lesson in the economics of free stuff. "So for a... (2020)
Tracing history’s most elusive holy relic will lead you to these real places. While the Holy Grail is generally thought of as mythology, some b... (2017)
In the 1800s, farmers cultivated mushrooms in abandoned quarries underneath the French capital. Within these catacombs, in dark, cavernous chamb... (2017)
The whip was not the only device of control slaveholders used: they were masters of manipulation too "As elsewhere in the Americas, the right of... (2020)
Credit for the Internet's resiliency in the era of coronavirus should go to the engineers and scientists who for decades worked to create a particu... (2020)
This blog, and the four that will follow it, draw on Part 1 of my 2016 book, The Great Convergence.In 1957, my father published a book called Econo... (2020)
The fear is similar, but the medical reality is not. (2020)
Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? (2020)
Time to start thinking about what it might mean (2020)
With the recent flooding of New York and New Jersey by hurricane Sandy it is a good time to revisit New Orleans and the work that was done by the U... (2016)
Today we delve into the history of this dynamic monument, which is the most impressive building that the Romans ever built, and perhaps the most in... (2021)
Puerto Rico is part of the United States but it often doesn’t really feel like it. Mostly because while the rest of the country has prospered, Pu... (2026)
As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson spoke with documen... (2025)
Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland: three nations with deep European roots that remain outside the European Union, despite their geographical and cul... (2024)
Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)
At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Rwanda to become the next Singapore? (2023)
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)
Cultures and cuisines inspire each other all around the world, especially in the last few decades. But Portugal seems to be a special case. It's a ... (2023)
Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)
German Reunification almost didn't happen. It was opposed by nearly all world leaders. (2023)
How was Switzerland Formed? -The History of Switzerland (2023)
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany (2023)
In this video, we trace the evolution of the European Union since the end of WWII until Brexit.-------- (2023)
Let's retrace on a map a summary of the main stages of WWII, from the end of WWI until the beginning of the Cold War. -------- (2023)
Let's retrace on a map a summary of WWI, the so-called "Great War". This video summarises the period since the rise of nationalism in the middle of... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
In 1977 Jimmy Carter agreed to the United States returning the Panama Canal back to Panama by 2000. He agreed to the transfer in return for nothing... (2023)
Love Modern Marvels? Stay up to date on all of your favorite History shows at https://history.com/schedule.Chronicles one of the most incredible en... (2023)
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty (2023)
When France fell to Germany (and Italy if you're feeling generous) it mostly became a client state of Berlin. Despite this France never tried to jo... (2023)
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic. (2005)
Movie: After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus ... (2000)
The greatest art works of all time - born of war and bloodshed - as rival artists Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael compete to craft beauty from c... (2024)
At Hemingway's Home Outside Havana, An Effort To Preserve Artifacts Of His Life In Cuba Ernest Hemingway lived at Finca Vigía for two decades be... (2018)
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Gregory Aldrete is a historian specializing in ancient Rome and military history.Thank ... (2024)
A short introductory episode for the History of Venice Podcast previewing what's coming up, who we are and why we chose this wonderful city and its... (2024)
There was one time the U.S. federal government stopped borrowing and paid off every penny of national debt. It did not end well… (2021)
We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)
Modern genomes from Nigeria and Sierra Leone show signals that scientists call "ghost" DNA — from an unknown human ancestor. That means that prehis... (2020)
Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxin... (2019)
In the final chapter of our series, we find that many who are rejecting the political system and values that underpin the European Union feel the s... (2019)
The nationalist governing party says it’s in favor of democracy — just not the kind represented by the European Union. We look at how it is reshapi... (2019)
Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands... (2018)
AMERICA'S first female secretary of state on how populism can slide into fascism, what Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Putin were like in person, and what... (2018)
The story of how one summer, and one World Cup, changed English football forever. (2018)
Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)
A court has ruled that a social welfare organization that ran a hospital where the mix-up occurred must pay the man about $317,000 for causing him ... (2018)
Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and ... (2018)
An economist and his grad-school buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country's economy. Twenty years ago, Brazil's inflation... (2017)
Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
South Korea says that the North is willing to talk about giving up its atomic arsenal. What happened to the threat of nuclear war? Guest: Mark Land... (2018)
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped... (2018)
They are hulking, but graceful — human-made whales that float in the air. For over a century, lighter-than-air vehicles have captured the public im... (2018)
In downtown Windhoek, Namibia -- at the intersection of Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue -- there's an imposing gold building with an a... (2023)
The line to enter Barcelona’s most famous church often stretches around the block. La Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, draws so many peop... (2019)
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away... (2020)
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the US, mascots are used to pump up crowds at sporting events, or for traumat... (2020)
Today, on the 120th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, author Esmeralda Santiago joins The Takeaway to discuss the invasion ... (2018)
The new film “Green Book” is rolling out across the country. I have not seen the film, so I can’t speak to its merits or shortcomings, but while pe... (2018)
Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, a... (2025)
In anticipation of Super Bowl LII (Go Eagles), we're revisiting an old episode about the surprising history of how the game came to be. It's the en... (2023)
In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. ... (2009)
“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and [Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to d... (2012)
A sweeping 400-year history of the Florentines who gave birth to the Renaissance, by the author of The Medici and The Borgias. --- Published:... (2021)
"A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century." San Francisco Chronicle "Once in a ... (2019)
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–d... (2020)
Description: From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in Wor... (2018)
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus,... (2020)
An unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikis... (2021)
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenits... (2021)
Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship—a luxury liner three and a half times the length... (2018)
This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (2018)
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)
New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century New York Times Bestseller A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Ga... (2024)
The surprising history of an inspiring and sometimes dangerous idea Meritocracy- the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents... (2021)
Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,... (2021)
The Manual book. Read 131 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Life's Missing Instruction Manual Epictetus (c. 50-135 CE) was br... (2021)
Meditations book. Read 7,002 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a phil... (2021)
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)
The Complete Maus book. Read 7,135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor'... (2020)
The Complete Persepolis book. Read 7,446 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-sellin... (2020)
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the... (2019)
Oklahoma City and Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis ... (2018)
Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when t... (2020)
Big questions about our Universe, our planet, life, and humanity. From the Big Bang to where we are going in the future, Big History covers it all.... (2021)
years of history. free. online. awesome. Teach a mind-blowing history course that harnesses your students' natural curiosity about our world. ... (2021)