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 ...

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A Demonstration in front of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany on July 20, 2021. Nestled alongside the River Spree south of Berlin’s city center, Treptower Park is home to green lawns, riverboat ...

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 ...

On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

“Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if most people on the U.S. mainland are only vaguely aware of its colonial history.” For an empire, the United States hides it well. In his ...

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 ...

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BOOKS are said to reflect the author’s convictions and beliefs. That’s accurate in R.F. Kuang’s historical fantasy novel “Babel.” The author weaves her own academic life into the narrative without ...