History Today

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

An admirable retelling of the traditional history of appeasement.

Is a biography of Chaucer impossible?

Archaeologists and historians are on the same side, despite what journalists say.

Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?

An intimate understanding of John Buchan with a scholarly reading of the immense mass of his papers 

Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.

Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future. 

What connects a Hollywood star, a physicist of genius and a recently departed historian?

This episode examines the Nazi genocide through human interactions with three crime scenes.