"Vietnam’s American War" is an iconoclastic revision of the history of the war...

Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...

Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways...

Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...

Standards are crucial to the way we live—just look around you. A no. 2 pencil, perhaps?

You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?

Why don’t governments do more to prevent genocide?

There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...

The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...

Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...

Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..

Black covers the history of the mapping of land wars, and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war...

While concentration camps may not seem to have much to do with travel and exploration, travel and forced detention are joined in strange and important ways...

In her book she describes the development and decline of cuisines throughout world history over 20,000 years...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Law examines the cultural context of Tokyo and Berlin’s political rapprochement in 1936...

Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

Who has the right to have rights?

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

A leitmotif running from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the country's global impact and to a degree self-understanding...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...