The next David vs. Goliath parable is seemingly only ever the next tournament away, but it’s not merely giant killings that ...

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

In fall 2019, the College Board will implement a new curriculum for one of its Advanced Placement courses: AP World History will now be called AP World History: Modern. More than 300,000 students sat ...

Over the past 100 years, we’ve witnessed some of the most profound changes in human history. Between a pandemic, wars, technological developments, progress in civil rights, and breakthroughs in ...

Had Britain's wartime leader truly stood alone in his opposition to appeasement, or did he rewrite history to portray himself in a better light? By Professor John Charmley. The rows were explosive, ...

This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th ...

The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on ...