As the rising powers of Germany and Japan sought to emulate established colonial titans, the world was consumed by war.

That was Tanganyika during World War I, where one of history’s boldest underdog stories unfolded, right here in East Africa.

Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso might wonder why especially makes his life so difficult among other nations like the USA .

The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.

Britain desperately needed help and Roosevelt wanted to offer it, but the US was isolationist and anti-colonial so it came at ...

In art history, it was often a positive term used to stress that these lands were German colonial lands. It also meant asserting that local culture belonged to Europe, rather than to the Slavic world ...

This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The conclave must avoid becoming a battleground for reactionary or revolutionary impulses. It must be a sacred discernment, ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Mantashe’s attacks on Orania and Afrikaner self-determinationContrast between Afrikaner and black South African nationhoodThe ...

President Franklin D Roosevelt called it the ‘date that would live in infamy'... but was Japan's devastating aerial assault ...

An Imperial History. Antidote to apologias for the US intelligence agency, a periodization from the Truman Doctrine to the ‘war on terror’.