In this narrative, the seventh-century Arab conquest is not a distant chapter in antiquity, but the original sin of Persian history – an ongoing catastrophe linking the fall of the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon in 637 A.D. directly to the prison yards…
In 1867, Russia sold a vast, thinly governed territory on the edge of North America to the United States for $7.2 million. Critics called it “Seward’s Folly”; within a century, Alaska had become central to American power in the North Pacific. The…
On Sept. 20, 1758, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born in Saint-Domingue. He became a leading figure in the Haitian Revolution, helped defeat French forces and declared Haiti’s independence in 1804. Editor’s note: This story is part of our “Today in History” series, where The…
Onions, sugar, rice: Why India’s food staples have gotten costly Roadblocks to democracy: What’s really at stake when the state restricts transport services? Wave of protests shows that Indian democracy’s greatest strength is its ‘million mutinies’ CEC protest updates: CJP’s…
Explore the «deadliest waterway» in the Pacific Northwest, and how the region has tried to tame it for centuries. The deadly Northwest passageway ships have (somehow) crossed for centuries Tags: History, Curious Northwest, Pacific Ocean
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