Poor old Alexander Hamilton. He’s about to lose his coveted spot on the $10 bill and be displaced by a woman. It’s way past time for that...

The marvelous British historian David Reynolds argues in his latest book – The Long Shadow – which explores the lasting legacies of World...

[Paris] – We are not always able to precisely identify the exact moment when some overarching event changed the world. History is rarely...

Douglas Haig – that’s him done up to his bemedalled best – has become the most controversial general of the Great War. His career,...

The truly amazing thing about the “no fly zone” policy adopted over the last few days by the United States and the United Nations is not...

The “war to end all wars” didn’t. In fact the case can be persuasively made that what before World War II was commonly called “the great...