Dive into the fascinating world of the largest empires in history, exploring how they grew, ruled, and eventually declined.

Emily Wells, Jennifer Merriman, and Qiong Wu—received Boswell-Caracci Material Culture Study Fund grants this year to reach beyond campus and their primary fields to connect with leading experts in ...

2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ... Currently kept at the British Museum under the stewardship of Assyriologist Irving Finkel, it depicts a circular map of the world alongside a text ...

But rather than imposing mass deportations, Madison’s administration simply required British nationals living ... dismiss blueprints for using an 18th-century law, however dubious, and it ...

The English had struggled in the previous century over ... against the nature of British government. Rather they objected to their changing place within the British Empire. The revolutionary ...

Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British fort ... historical maps show that seven British redouts were built when the British had administrative ...

A book about 18th-century printmaking — and that of the early 19th century, something not quite captured in the title — might not strike you as timely. But as Chadwick points out, the British ...

A map of the Canary Islands. Image: Public Domain During the 17th and 18th centuries ... will be reference to captured mail from the British High Court of Admiralty held in London’s National ...

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories ... she can manage is to point to an 18th-century African monarch abolishing the slave trade as evidence that the British do not deserve any plaudits for ...

An 18th-century “Wildman of Jesso” bronze token starred during Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s recent 18th century British token auction ... the far reaches of its empire. These cabinets of ...

Chief Takyi led one of the largest military revolts of the 18th-century British Empire and Montague is adamant that he should be conferred a national hero in Jamaica. The uprising, which took ...