A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

Visualizing Japan in Modern World History was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with support from the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia at the Program for Teaching East ...

Voices from the Past: The Human Cost of Japan’s Modernization, 1880s-1930s In many world history curricula, study of modern Japan moves quickly from the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the mid-20th ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Voiceover: Modern history has been shaped by conquest – the conquest of the world by Europeans. The Conquistadors led the way. A few hundred men came to the New World and decimated the native ...

The one-year MA in Modern History, given by the Department of International History, provides broad coverage of the origins, formation and reinvention of the modern world. This is enabled by a ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made history in 1937 as the first-ever animated feature film from the then-fledgling Walt ...

Andrew Marr explores ten key events which have helped to shape our modern world. These clips are relevant for teaching History at KS3 and KS4/GCSE in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and National ...