A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...

In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea professor of history and director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His latest books are Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/ancient-africa-global-history-300-cehttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/ancient-africa-global-history-300-ce ...

If globalization represents a ""new historical epoch,"" it must, as this text asserts, have its origins in a history extending much further back than the recent past. With this concise and insightful ...

Since the late 1990s, globalization has seemed to be the great hope for the future. Now this great hope seems to be dimming. Globalization sets up conflict in the area of jobs. Countries around the ...

“I am conscious that I am not wise either much or little,” Socrates says in Plato’s “Apology.” Between knowledge and ignorance lies an epistemological no man’s land, a murk of half-knowing that we ...

Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920. (AP) In 1985, almost two-fifths of the world’s population lived in countries governed by communist parties. From the Baltics to ...