History Today

T.P. Wiseman applauds those historians who restlessly question orthodoxies and received facts.

'America has not come to terms with its own history ... and regards Latin American nationalism as a conspiracy against its inevitable and popular domination of the western hemisphere.

Mildred Budny provides some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry

The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward.

Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.

Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have wanted to make a revolution against him.

In Reading History, Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.

James Dormon continues our America and the Americas series with a look at the growth of a group of 17th-century settlers in Nova Scotia.

Mildred Budny gauges the scale and achievement of 11th-century art.

Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history.