One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation and abroad is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on History
Displaying 961 - 980 of 1492 articles
Notes unearthed from the British Library suggest that Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition may have been fatally undermined by Lieutenant Teddy Evans, furious after being sent back to base.
Just as Playboy was emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, a German entrepreneur named Beate Uhse was building a sex business of her own – centered on the pleasure of women.
The first recorded performance of the theatre company that Shakespeare co-founded was at a playhouse south of the Thames, but was lost to historians for centuries. Now we know where it lies.
China’s bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
Early Vikings wouldn’t understand nationalism – the secret to their success was to embrace other cultures.
The Korean peninsula has a lengthy history of exchanging insults.
Historically, there have been numerous cultural manifestations of austerity that shed light on its enduring appeal.
Histories of the North Atlantic have had a preponderant influence on scholarship about race. But, for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who study southern Africa, this is changing.
The egalitarian myth behind the great Australian dream of home ownership is at odds with the first rules of land granting in the colonies. Even then, property ownership depended on wealth and status.
While today we sweat, early modern Europeans froze. Furs to the rescue.
Australians boast of our warrior participation in every major war since 1899, and in every modern Olympiad since 1896.
In 1825, more than 130 Cornish miners and engineers landed in Mexico to work in the silver mines. Their legacy lives on.
The CRISPR gene-editing technique raises new questions about how we measure time and conceptualise history. Here, a cultural theorist takes on the philosophical side of this scientific breakthrough.
The 1954 defection of West Germany’s first domestic spy chief and ardent anti-Nazi rocked the world – and then he returned to Bonn.
The story behind the marathon is more complicated than it seems.
Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
Should they stay or should they go?
As India celebrates its independence, the flag is on full display, but few people know about the complex origins of this ubiquitous national symbol.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
Top contributors
-
Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
-
Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
-
Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
-
ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
-
Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney
-
Historian, Australian Catholic University
-
Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
-
Research assistant, Deakin University
-
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Winchester
-
Professor of History, Macquarie University
-
Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
-
Professor of History, McGill University
-
Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
-
Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
-
Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
