Perilously suspended between West and East, between Rome and Byzantium, between the Habsburgs and Ottomans, and between Vienna and Budapest, the western Balkans was long viewed by outsiders with incomprehension at best, and with derision at worst. In...

Byzantine Emperor, from which he never recovered, as a treacherous double-dealer, in sympathy with Islam, who knowingly encouraged up to nine-tenths of a Crusader force of 80,000 to their doom. This vitriolic portrait resounded through the centuries and...

Bangalore', that it was in this city that he “resolved to read history, philosophy, economics and things like that” and wrote to his mother asking for “such books as I had heard of on these topics.” Churchill says he read four to five hours every day,...

The Muslim presence in France has a thousand year history. Muslims invaded France and clashed with Charles Martel's armies between Poitiers and Tours in 732, in what Edward Gibbon called “an encounter which would change the history of the world.” Less...

One of the most important historians of ancient Rome died. He was Edward Gibbon and is sometimes considered the first modern historian. His 6-volume Roman history was drawn from primary sources instead of relying only on secondary accounts. The History...

Ferguson doesn’t hide the fact that he means for his latest work of meta-history to take its place on the global bookshelf next to the rise-and-fall works of Edward Gibbon , Kenneth Clark , Francis Fukuyama , Jared Diamond , Samuel P. Huntington and...