Soldiers tend to be much more down on war than those who send them into it, writes Juliet Jacques, as even the briefest look ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in ...

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has accused the world of hypocrisy for overlooking the crimes committed by ...

Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

Speaking on the 1915 mass killings, Gabbard remarked, “The Ottoman Empire was attempting to cleanse itself of the Armenian ...

At the start of the traditional distillation process — which has been repeated for centuries — the petals are set in mud ...

Many historians and genocide scholars have regarded the 1915 Armenian Genocide as the model for all subsequent genocides in ...

Built 500 years ago, Istanbul's Zeyrek Cinili Hammam recently reopened after a restoration process that took 13 years — Ozan ...

World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...