Category: History

The Fall of Rome

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as

Why is it that our current AD 21st century is so similar to the 21st century BC? Is history destined

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline

“What the Greeks discovered, how they brought a new world to birth out of the dark confusions of an old

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement

Though she was born into one of the most powerful families of Renaissance Italy, Catherine de’ Medici was never expected

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People

America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of