History and Theory, Vol. 57, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2018), pp. 390-407 (18 pages) Ever since the spatial turn, historians have faced major challenges regarding how to write and research global history in ...

Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some historical highlights, there's always more to discover—especially from ...

Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea professor of history and director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His latest books are Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman ...

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...

If globalization represents a ""new historical epoch,"" it must, as this text asserts, have its origins in a history extending much further back than the recent past. With this concise and insightful ...

In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

In recent years, China has spent a small fortune trying to influence the world through “soft power” — relying on language, cuisine and culture, rather than the conventional hard tools of aircraft ...

Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920. (AP) In 1985, almost two-fifths of the world’s population lived in countries governed by communist parties. From the Baltics to ...