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 ...

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 ...

Donkeys entered Namibia’s central north relatively late, and only became common in the 1920s and 1930s. Their presence across ...

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 ...

Itinerary of François Pyrard de Laval includes a visit to "Inde." On a chilly afternoon in February 1611, the town of Laval, a prosperous mercantile conurbation on the River Mayenne in northwest ...

Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...

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 ...

Students and researchers exploring the colonial history of the Caribbean region have a powerful new tool in their toolkits: Adam Matthew’s Colonial Caribbean collection, outfitted with Quartex ...

African leaders used a gathering in Algiers on Sunday to revive a long-standing demand for the world to formally acknowledge colonial-era abuses, treat them as crimes under international law and ...

The Graham family of Madison took time Saturday to see a slice of 18th-century colonial life on the Western Pennsylvania frontier — guns, knives, compasses, a canteen, powderhorns, bowls, woodworking ...