History Today

George Watson examines the changing meaning of the term from Machiavelli to Lenin.

Robert Thorne investigates the nineteenth-century passion for views that has inspired the exhibition about to open at London's Barbican Art Gallery.

Brian Holden Reid opens our two-headed debate on the American Civil War by arguing that the South failed to use revolutionary methods to full advantage.

John Crossland looks at the impact of statesman and soldier Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

Melanie Yun on life for a First World War prisoner in a German mine.

Melanie Billings-Yun investigates President Eisenhower's motives and methods in the spring of 1954, when French collapse in Indochina brought pressures for direct American intervention against Communism.

Awkward cousins - Nigel Aston traces the response of the House of Orleans to the vicissitudes of the French throne and revolution

Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee

Macdonald Daly and Gordon Riddell look back and reflect on the changes in public libraries