As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...

African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, ...

Pirates and the loot they plundered have long fascinated us. Stories like "Treasure Island" and movies like "Pirates of the ...

The French imperial enterprise in India was off to an unpromising start. Small wonder it took over half a century to ...

Reporting from around the world, investigative journalist Karen Hao reveals how one company’s vision of the future is ...

The Great Indian Novel (1989) brought Shashi Tharoor into the literary spotlight in the late 80s. A work of fiction, it ...

Bibliotherapy helps externalize what has long been internalized. It allows readers to break cycles of silence and restore a ...

Rajasthan Governor Haribhau Bagade has raised doubts about the marriage of Rajput princess Jodha Bai to Mughal Emperor Akbar.

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage ...