Political and Economic History

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The Roman Empire was arguably the most successful empire in history, eclipsing ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Shannon M. Smith. The Pentagon has approved leaving 5,000 troops deployed indefinitely to protect the U.S ...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Madison Moulton. The causes of global inequalities between the West and the East is ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes From the cave paintings of Montignac to the Mercator Projection and beyond, maps explain how ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Michael Vecchio Many years of fighting and an estimated 85 million people dead; the ...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Richard Shrubb. The abolition of slavery by the British Empire would cause an economic ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Robbie Moore, University of Tasmania. The gleeful manipulation of GameStop’s share price is not the first ...
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes By Lidia Thorpe With 26 January looming, many Australians will be ashamed of the fact ...
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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes In the history of warfare, there have been mismatched conflicts where skilled forces have been ...
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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes The Greenwood neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a hub for black business and wealth from ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes For a shining example of ancient warfare and the cause of the world's first recorded ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Madison Moulton Fake news has become a popular buzzword. However, the phenomenon is not ...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Fergus O'Sullivan World War 1 was a conflict that engulfed entire continents and swallowed ...
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Rachel Wood, Australian National University Radiocarbon dating has transformed our understanding of the past 50,000 years. Professor Willard Libby produced ...
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The Civilisation Program, the Indian Removal Act and the Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1776 - 1860. By Caitlan Hester The ...
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There may be many historically based films, but only a few can be rightfully called striking, emotional, and informative. As ...
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By Madison Moulton. The history of the lead up to WWI is undoubtedly dominated by Europe. European powers understandably take ...
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By Richard Shrubb. For the last 1,000 years and until very recently, scholars have held that the Indian sub-continent was ...
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By Michael Vecchio. Most history enthusiasts will eye the release of a new film on a historical topic somewhat sceptically, ...
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By Carolyn Comeau. It’s important to take historically-based art, whether a painting that condenses a battle or the acclaimed Broadway ...
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By Fergus O'Sullivan. Plenty of video games are marketed as being historically accurate, but few truly are. In this article, ...
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By Anna McEvinney. The working day as we now know it was the result of international, cross-industry labour efforts from ...
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By Dan Teodorescu. The Great War was a major turning point for virtually all European countries, but not too many ...
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By Caitlan Hester. Native American Mound-Building Civilizations For over 5,000 years the Eastern, Southeastern, and the Midwestern U.S. were populated ...
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Richard Shrubb. With the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834 the ...
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The Battle of One Tree Hill in 1843 was one of the largest battles in the Australian frontier wars, taking ...
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Charles A. Conant Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States ...
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