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Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can b
Geographic labels are sometimes misnomers. The Dead Sea’s name is not, for the most part. Its high s
Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past (Oxford UP, 2024) is a new title in OUP's Grap
Israel’s citizens have had to cope with the emotional challenges of the threats their country has fa
Menus are invaluable snapshots of the food consumed at specific moments in time and place. Tastes an
In The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chica
After staging a mock attack at Gleiwitz, Germany unleashed its blitzkrieg on Poland on September 1,
The United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge compan
Ian Rapley’s Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945 (U Hawai
Did you know Hong Kong used to be a hub for pirates?That factoid has long been part of the popular h
What can we learn from war, and warfare, in the twentieth century? What observations and deductions
For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest
Reframing India in World History breaks the stereotypical portrayal of India based on misconstrued h
One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understan
When we think of Vietnamese history, we tend to think of plucky peasant guerillas fighting for their
This detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major internati
In 1945 to 1946, postwar India was enthralled by the treason trial of three officers—formerly of the
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and E
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailor
