My long time friend and colleague Ed Spannaus, has recently authored, Busting the Myth of the ldquo;Abolitionist rdquo; ...

India boasts two colossal banyan trees, the Great Banyan and Thimmamma Marrimanu. The Great Banyan in Kolkata covers nearly ...

For centuries, people claimed the sun never set on the British Empire—and at its peak, that was almost literally true. This documentary explores how Britain built the largest empire in history, ...

While the history of the South Asian diaspora readily maps on to the contours of the British empire, this is not the full story and especially not so in the case of displaced Goans. Of course, having ...

The modern Middle East was not shaped by ancient nation states but by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First ...

The global power, might and super-power status the US experiences and enjoys today, since the end of the WW I in 1918, were not fortuitous nor serendipitous by any stretch of imagination. ..

From Kings Mountain to Yorktown, America's 250th anniversary celebrations will continue honoring the revolutionary heritage ...

The American Revolution is often examined through the lives of towering figures such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. But as the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of ...

Declaration of Independence, the meaning of the American Revolution remains at the center of the debate between its founding ...

Unsurprisingly, the United States and China have the world’s two strongest navies—but several far smaller nations punch well above their weight. Nearly every great power in world history has tried to ...

In July 1938, an international conference was held in Evian, France, to decide the fate of Jews from Germany and Austria. Almost no one in the world was willing to take them in.

Ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2026, revisit India's most iconic Commonwealth Games medals from Rashid Anwar's historic first medal to Milkha Singh's gold and the unforgettable New Delhi 2010 ...