A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and politics. ONE of the most distinguished of our recent predecessors in the walks of history, the late Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, has said with much ...

For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...

I was a on a northbound train some decades ago when the conductor announced we’d crossed the Scottish border. A carriage full of drunken Yorkshiremen laid down their playing cards and lagers and burst ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

Children at a depot in New York City to greet their parents after a mass strike parade, US, 1911. (Photo by Paul Thompson / FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images) The many and conflicting ways that ...

THE HISTORIAN AND HISTORY by Page Smith. 261 pages. Knopf. $4.95. Though they have been writing history for several centuries, historians are still arguing about how it should be written. Some would ...

The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the American ...

On the occasion of the publication of Is Art History?, a definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past half century Svetlana Alpers, BFA Visual & Critical ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...

THE witty remark of Dumas, that Lamartine had raised history to the dignity of romance, would have appealed to Thomas Buckle, who was much occupied with reducing it to the level of a science. Critics ...