In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael deGruccio discovers a generation betrayed by the fight for freedom.
In the 1970s and 1980s Wimpy faced off with McDonald’s in a battle over what it meant to eat British.
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren looks to the 15th century for the birth of the press.
For the Victorians and Edwardians, the late British summer was a time of sun, sand – and sea serpents.
Who was Martin Marprelate, seditious pamphleteer and enemy of the Elizabethan Church and state? And, more importantly, how could he be stopped?
How did Spain, Western Europe’s last dictatorship, become one of its most popular tourist destinations?
Malibu’s 1960s Beauty Farm aimed to get a new generation of teenagers marriage-ready
‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth Norton reveals the 17th-century origins of the agony aunt.
In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary people.
How did Western Europe learn of the fall of Constantinople, the loss of Negroponte, and the Ottoman defeat at Lepanto? In the early modern era all news was slow news.
