history

The wounds of civil war are deeper and worse than the wounds in conventional, interstate wars

On Wednesday, Ottawa celebrates 150 years of the legislature meeting on Parliament Hill. Here’s what they did on day one.

This year marks the centennial of many important—if under-recognized—historic events. The first in a series of why 1916 was such an interesting year

A new book offers an unintentional guide for Canada to conquer America. If, for some reason, we ever wanted to try to do that.

In taking on the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, Strauss tells a story of near-mythic status—and scant sources.

Authors Guldi and Armitage have some advice for the Historians of the world: it’s time to go big.

If Americans hate monarchs so much, why do they elect one?

The Bodleian Library’s treasures reveal that mockery was a potent British wartime weapon

The Berlin Wall fell, but testaments to the Cold War remain standing

The term ’the Great War’ first appeared in print in Maclean’s back in October 1914