History Matters

From monks to Vikings to tourists, the Manx language has (almost) survived against the odds.

The concerns of a Sardinian abbess, as seen through the letters of Gregory the Great.

Never fully exorcised, the memory of Italy’s fascist past is fading.

The diaries of a young teacher reveal the complexities of racial tensions in the Gold Coast.

A translator alters more than a text’s language, turning the process into a political statement.

As technology changes, so do ideas about the borders of the self and the nature of privacy. 

The worst monsters to the Anglo-Saxon mind were those who thought like humans but chose to act differently.

Like President Trump, Nixon made a virtue of unpredictability. In the case of his China strategy, this paid off while his decision to close the gold window did not.

Why is the siege such a popular and controversial imperial episode?

In their quest to collect all the knowledge of the known world, Roman authors also recorded the strange and the fabulous.