This Month's Magazine
In the April issue:
- Iran’s Islamic Revolution
- Mothers of the Mongol Empire
- When giants roamed the earth
- Do all revolutions end badly?
- The late-medieval papal chapel
- New York’s forgotten subway
- The birth of modern optics
- The enduring legend of Robin Hood
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Selected articles from this issue
Four historians consider the desirability of profound political change and the methods used to attain it.
The late-medieval papal chapel was a powerful jewel in the papal tiara.
Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became a lightning rod for the mass protests which overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979, but the causes of the Iranian Revolution lay elsewhere.
Problems with public transport are almost as old as New York itself. One proposed solution was nothing but hot air.
