Using AI to comb through hundreds of thousands of handwritten pages of port records, historians have constructed an ...

A new book traces the rise of tea and how it became one of the first commodities of globalization. If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...

Between 1926 and 1940, Bimal Mukherjee and Ramnath Biswas cycled across continents and wrote about their journeys. Historian Souvik Naha’s study shows how those writings challenged British rule.

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In 1921, at the territorial height of the British Empire, 23 percent of the world's population lived under the rule of Great Britain. Things have changed considerably over the last century, though ...

America is an empire, the empire (for the time being), and it too casts a long shadow. While Woolf’s Septimus was a ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...