Colin Fluxman

Sprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club. The grayish curtains of cigarette...

Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps no...

Throughout history, there have been men of war and men of peace, but few have actually ha...

Toward the end of the 17th century, the preeminent Islamic power in the world was the Ott...

Today, nursing is one of the most ubiquitous professions in the world, and images of war ...

While he remains far less known than Hannibal, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the man who has ...

“The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought f...

Moses Ben Maimon, frequently called Maimonides, was a medieval philosopher who revolutio...

The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most c...

However diverse Sicily might be, it is also paradoxically considered to be an emblem of ...

When people look up into the night sky, the stars seem fixed and immutable, as unchangin...

To most people in the West, particularly the youth, the mere mention of Japan immediatel...

Even after Greek power waned, the Romans borrowed Greek culture, so it should come as li...

The Byzantine Empire was the heir to two great cultures that cradled and nurtured Europe...

By 1180, Saladin had consolidated his power in both Egypt and Syria, but he still could ...

Perhaps not surprisingly given how advanced they were in comparison to contemporaries, th...

In August 2017, Turkey’s President Recip Tayyip Erdogan gave a directive to the F...

With the exception of Napoleon Bonaparte, few men were more influential on the military ...

Set in the northeastern corner of Spain and nestled next to France is the autonomous regi...

From Gaelic, the words Sinn Fein translate loosely into English as “We Ourselves,&...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigeno...

Until the 1930s, nationalism had always tended to be a phenomenon of the right-wing or th...

The new United States was faced with a fundamental problem: to expand, it had to settle l...

To many in the ancient world, their gods and goddesses were all around them and could be...

Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in ...

The Hawaiian kingdom existed for about a century, from the early 1790s to 1893, starting...

In Germany, the most threatening and caustic radio personality was Mildred Gillars, know...

People associate the story of ancient Jericho with walls, and for those who are Biblical...

While the Battle of the Bulge is the most famous fighting in that theater after D-Day, t...

People’s timeless captivation with those supposedly endowed with supernatural powe...

In the predawn sky of northern Canada on the morning of January 24th, 1978, a long strea...

Theologian and reformer John Wycliffe never had the opportunity to take his doctrines out...

To say Edith Stein lived a remarkable life would be a dramatic understatement. Born in B...

Dolly Parton is best known for her musical prowess, but there is so much more to her char...

In ancient Egypt, the underpinning concept in law, in theory, was that rich and poor cit...

Along with Egypt, the cultural and geographic region known as Mesopotamia was home to so...

Malta’s history goes back further than many know, which can be attested to by the n...

The internment of Japanese Americans in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor is second ...

The Cold War moved into one of its most dangerous phases after Brezhnev’s death as...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenou...

By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored...

Before the Mongols rode across the steppes of Asia and Eastern Europe, the Cumans were a...

In the wake of the Roman Empire’s collapse, Italy found itself fractured, and near...

Russia has been depicted by the media as a cyberspace boogeyman, a nation of hackers that...

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people....

“The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought fr...

It would be hard if not outright impossible to overstate the impact Roman Emperor Constan...