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Global History
Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.
Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
Traditionally, the long history of Japanese thought has not been viewed as “philosophy” — even by Japanese scholars. It’s time for a rethink.
The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
Mansa Musa, perhaps history's richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
The story of China is the story of global economics.
Million Stories
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Studying the display of personal wealth across time can help us better understand the history of socioeconomic inequality.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Horses pranced around the western hemisphere until they went extinct in the late Holocene. They were reintroduced by European colonists — though where, when, and how has remained unclear.
Understanding the factors behind recent growth could help us better approach inequality.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
The German-American cartoonist introduced the idea that Santa Claus traveled with a sleigh and reindeer.