On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the ...

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...

How to read more? We might take instruction from a more leisurely age.

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

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History Today was first published on 12 January 1951. Our readers and contributors share their memories of the magazine 75 ...

The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs on 2 January 1492.