Discover why European powers rushed to colonize the New World driven by economic gain, religious missions, national rivalry, and the quest for new trade routes. This simplified U.S. history lesson ...

In this video I briefly discuss the colonization history of the territories that would eventually constitute the Kingdom of ...

As the Iran war expands, the roots of many West Asia conflicts lie in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the European agreements that redrew the region's borders after World War I.

Allies have rushed to defend the Mediterranean nation, where the drone hit a British base. Some Cypriots wonder why the bases ...

A fresh look at tourism in Spain revisits the “Spain is Different” slogan, revealing a longer, more complex and contested history than the 1960s boom suggests.

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy Pre-colonial African societies have long been seen ...

Jens Schanze’s doc, premiering at Copenhagen, confronts "past colonization and present-day resource politics" in Bolivia and beyond with epic images, an observational approach, and, yes, llamas.

Taxation and fiscal reforms have historically triggered some of the most consequential social and political upheavals in human history. The French Revolution of 1789, for instance, was driven largely ...

The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, T ...

Mr Chairman, rdquo; was Kwame Nkrumah Jr unmoved . With historic stubbornness did he follow his course in his mission to bring new justice to Africa .

The question is no longer whether the sector knows better. It does. It’s whether the humanitarian funding model is willing to produce anything else.

Marco Rubio’s speech last month in Munich obscured Western imperialism’s dispossession, exploitation and slaughter of ...