Benin City underwent its most extensive archaeological dig to date in the lead up to the opening of MOWAA (Museum of West ...

Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

The opening of the $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum has revived claims that the Rosetta Stone should return to Egypt.

All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the nation-states that were once nation-empires. The 1960s marked a critical moment for the nationalization of history in the Western ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

Some mishmash misreading of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” mixed with the myth of Winston Churchill, that unregenerate racist ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the ...

Britain had a Nazi streak. Ronald Reagan embraced terrorism to win the Cold War. Teddy Roosevelt was a white supremacist ...

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...

Eugenics in colonial Nigeria was not a historical footnote; it was a system of thought that still echoes in the country’s social hierarchies, educational systems, and conflicts. From the suppression ...