Hating the British Empire is nothing new. Indeed, it has been the primary occupation of the academy since about 1960. Not without exceptions, of course. The prolific Jeremy Black’s Imperial Legacies ...

Nestled alongside the River Spree south of Berlin’s city center, Treptower Park is home to green lawns, riverboat rides and runners pounding their way along the waterside path. Summer days usually see ...

A year and nine months after the World Health Organization officially declared coronavirus a pandemic, South Africans still have a concerning, lingering distrust for all three vaccines available to ...

A look at the academic roots of the idea, which has stirred fierce debate when applied to Israel. By Jennifer Schuessler In the intense war of words over the Israel-Gaza war, a particular phrase has ...

My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to ...

Empires have existed throughout human history, established by imperialist civilisations including the Romans, Mongols and Assyrians. Colonialism refers not just to the logistical process of ...

Progressives Struggle to Take America’s Side in a Fight So many American civic holidays of my youth seem to be getting the axe these days, in our modern age of woke rejectionism: intolerable public ...

Harriet Mercer is a member of the Making Climate History project, which receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sixth and latest report on the ...

The remnants of a small colonial community, built roughly 270 years ago, before the Revolutionary War, can be found crumbling and rusting on a country road and covered bridge in Alamance County. Small ...

At an old stone harbor in the English city of Bristol, young people gather at a bent railing by the water and peer into the murky deep. They’re looking for the defaced statue of the 17th century slave ...