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The father of modern optics could not have succeeded had he not feigned madness.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a lightning rod for the mass protests which overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979, but the causes of the Iranian Revolution lay elsewhere.
Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires.
Problems with public transport are almost as old as New York itself. One proposed solution was nothing but hot air.
In this episode we travel to the summer of 1947 to witness the chaotic, catastrophic sequence of events surrounding Indian independence and the subsequent Partition.
Four historians consider the desirability of profound political change and the methods used to attain it.
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Volume 69 Issue 4 April 2019
- Iran’s Islamic Revolution
- Mothers of the Mongol Empire
- When giants roamed the earth
- Do all revolutions end badly?
- The late-medieval papal chapel
- New York’s forgotten subway
- The birth of modern optics