Like many of the famous cities of the Asian seaboard, Penang was a creation of British trading enterprise. Until Francis Light landed there in 1786 to establish the rule of the East India Company, it ...

There was a grand uproar in the quadrangle, the men threw out to the boys old hats (which were immediately used as footballs) ...

In Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela, Magdalena S. Sánchez discovers a 16th-century marriage documented ...

Contemporary newspapers painted Masall as one of the most successful snake hunters in the United States of America. She had ...

The Slavery Abolition Act was passed by Parliament in 1833. What was really behind Britain’s moment of moral enlightenment?

Whig is beautiful? Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism by Adrian Wooldridge looks for signs of life ...

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established in 1909 to exploit the Persian Gulf oil field, which had been discovered the year before. The name was later changed to Anglo-Iranian. By 1950 the company ...

With the culling of USAID those days are over. I n 1941, with Europe and Asia convulsed by war, Henry Luce, founder of TIME ...

The first written references to prehistoric rock art were by the Chinese philosopher Han Fei in the third century BC. Europe ...

The sinking of the White Ship was a disaster for England’s King Henry I, but it was also felt deeply by his subjects.

The discovery of Brazil was an episode in the creation of a Portuguese commercial empire which in less than a hundred years extended to four continents. The Portuguese established West African coastal ...

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