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An alliance between Louis XIV and a Transylvanian prince was just one aspect of the Sun King’s ambition to dominate Europe.

The Third Reich’s obsession with a pure Germanic past led to a renewed interest in the witch hunts of early modern Germany.

Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the 19th-century Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story.

Sweltering British imperialists relied on an army of fan bearers, whose stories are as invisible as the air they circulated.

Liberalism became the dominant ideology of the West when it was adopted by Britain and the United States in the 19th century. But its origins lie elsewhere.

It is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. How have the events of that day been remembered?

Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.

The military elite of the medieval and early modern Muslim world consisted of men who had been captured and forced into service. But to what extent were the janissaries and their predecessors subject to slavery?

The Strait of Hormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between Iran and Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.