How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child...

The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...

Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....

Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?

The Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea...

Eaton holds that mastering these concepts will build the critical thinking skills essential to a historian....

Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...

Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....

"Beyond Hawai'i" is the first book to argue that indigenous labor—more than the movement of ships and spread of diseases—unified the Pacific World....

Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes....

How should we understand what's going on in China? Listen in....

Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...

"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, American nuclear policy continues to be influenced by the legacies of the Cold War...

The men and women of the US Army were among the first to confront the Japanese military onslaught, most notably in the Philippines...

Karl argues that China’s contemporary emergence is best seen not as a “return,” but rather as the product of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activity and imaginings...

Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..

The Cold War was an event that has divided historians since the beginnings of serious historiography on the subject began in the mid-1960s...

How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?

Grimmer-Solem examines the process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests...

An interview with Sam De Schutter

Black offers a masterful overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume...

Jeremy Black presents a learned and yet entertaining exploration of the history: political, cultural and social of Europe from its prehistory to the 21st century.

Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...