History Today

John Herschel Glenn Jr was the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20th 1962.

Otto I was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope John XII on February 2nd 962.

Roger Hudson explains the story behind a 19th-century photograph of George Washington's mausoleum.

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

As the debate rages about how history should be taught in state schools David Cannadine discusses his recent research project.

Hugh Purcell tells how Kitty Bowler, a young American, captured the heart of Tom Wintringham, the 'English Captain' at Jarama.

Britain’s recent disputes with the European Union are part of a long historical narrative, argues James Ellison – but it is not the whole story.

Keith Lowe on the dilemmas faced by a victorious but financially ruined Britain in its dealings with postwar Germany.

The British Battalion of the International Brigades, formed to defend the Spanish Republic against the forces of General Franco, first went into battle at Jarama in February 1937. It was the beginning of a bruising, often dispiriting campaign.

Christopher Allmand examines Alain Chartier’s Le Livre des Quatre Dames, a poem written in response to the English victory at Agincourt, and asks what it can tell us about the lives of women during this chapter in the Hundred Years War.