Colin Fluxman

On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czec...

Although the Biblical accounts of the Assyrians are among the most interesting and are o...

In January 1848, Sicily had a major revolution, which provoked widespread uprisings and ...

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

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz died almost 200 years ago, yet he remains one of t...

“Troops assembled villagers and townspeople, loaded them onto trucks – many ...

The events of 1848-1849 began to pull the peninsula together, however. In January, 1848,...

In the year 2060, Earth is divided into 10 sectors. AI has made many jobs obsolete, peopl...

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz died almost 200 years ago, yet he remains one of t...

Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in lat...

When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremel...

It would not be a stretch to say that for a very tiny geographical territory (just 20,747...

The Civil War is often considered one of the first modern wars, and while technology affe...

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...

Shaped like an uneven triangle, Catalonia is comprised of four provinces that occupy an ...

Of all the steppe peoples in the medieval period, perhaps none were more important to Eu...

“Let us begin this narration, brethren,from the old times of Vladimir to this prese...

Today, the world is in the midst of the transformative and ever-developing Digital Age, ...

When people think of ancient Greece, images of philosophers such as Plato or Socrates oft...

After two world wars that had decimated the continent of Europe in little more than thir...

The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technolo...

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

The Jacobites conjure up many images to 21st century Britons, including romantic heroism...

The Gepids were a Germanic tribe often overshadowed by the Huns because they shared roug...

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginnin...

The concept of death can be viewed from different perspectives. In general terms, it can...

Long before it was known as Afghanistan, and even longer before it acquired its current r...

By mid-1943, British leaders, particularly Churchill, believed that while the defeat of ...

By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire seemed to be at the zenith of its pow...

Modern day Lithuania is a small country bordering the Baltic Sea with a population of le...

International trade in the ancient world was a more intricate and far-reaching system tha...

The crucial importance of education in China, a prized virtue instilled in the populatio...

In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took absolute control of Germany, and his new r...

One of the earliest species of the genus Homo to be discovered is Homo habilis, which ba...

Although the ancient world was for the most part a patriarchal place, more than a few wo...

The term Moor is a historical rather than an ethnic name. It is an invention of European...

While the Great Pyramid of Giza is the most recognizable, the tradition of pyramid build...

Hans Memling, a painter from Flanders, is the holder of an unfortunate record. He painte...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

The Gaza Strip is one of the most controversial hotbeds of conflict in the 21st century,...

It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman,...

During the period after the collapse of the Roman Empire and the establishment of mediev...

The early 1st millennium BCE was a time of great change and turmoil in the Near East and...

During the first half of the 1st millennium CE, an empire arose in Persia that extended ...

Naturally, when the history of medieval England is discussed, the Angles and Saxons are ...

The need to eat and drink is a biological necessity for everyone, but along with that, f...

As settlers continued to encroach further west, the Shawnee, who were attempting to put ...

It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman,...

Smyrna was one of the various cities that enjoyed brief yet important periods of influen...