As Rohit De, an assistant professor of history at Yale University, explains in his extraordinary book, A People’s Constitution, the document mattered to its citizens,...
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain includes a character who is Enlightenment personified. “Our Western heritage is reason – reason, analysis, action, progress!” Settembrini the...
Indians protesting against a discriminatory citizenship law are using the Constitution as a rallying cry.
Wednesday’s House proceedings represent only the third time in U.S. history that the body has debated impeaching a president. What has changed in the decades since previous...
Joe Manning explores the relationship between volcanic eruptions, Nile flooding, and the fall of ancient Egypt on Secrets: Egypt’s Apocalypse Volcano, tonight on the...
Russia is reportedly sending soldiers and military aid to the Central African Republic in return for mining rights, and sending military advisers to neighboring Congo. Such...
Michael Howard, who has died aged 97, was the most influential British military historian of his generation. He left a mark on public and professional debate in Britain and...
