Consider Supporting HoH: During the closing decade of the 19th century, elements of old and new existed side by side in China ...

Imperial China faced enormous hardships by the 1860s, including the Taiping rebellion, two Opium wars, multiple concurrent ...

This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is supported by the Ukrainian ...

Near the starkly imposing tomb of Cyrus the Great, who founded the Persian Empire in 550 BC, I met an Iranian who summarized ...

The Insurrection Act is a law that authorizes the president to deploy the military inside the United States. Under the ...

Pepper spray, camouflage gear and a threat of deadly force don’t hold the typical sounds of music. However, in the political ...

The structured corset was a part of dress for most women in the 19th century. However, throughout the century quite a couple ...

From Hamilton’s duel to Sairat and Lata Singh, a stark analysis of honour killings in India—and how caste, patriarchy, and ...

Last Wednesday, the Trump administration “paused” immigrant visa applications for people from 75 countries, mostly in the ...

John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...

This process has greatly eroded the hope within Iranian society, particularly among the younger generations, that the system can be changed from within. This can be seen both in the sharp decline in ...

America First” once meant hawkishness towards China; contempt for multilateral organisations; and disinterest in Ukraine, ...