Who’s bigger: Washington or Lincoln? Hitler or Napoleon? Charles Dickens or Jane Austen? That depends on how you look at it. When we set out to rank the significance of historical figures, we decided ...

History podcasts offer millions of listeners what classrooms and textbooks often cannot: making the past feel urgent, human ...

This month, 1,700 years ago, was one of the most significant and consequential events in all of Church history. Across the Bosporus Straight from Constantinople, in Nicaea, a Council met to settle a ...

The history of the world is, perhaps unfortunately, the history of empires. As far back as historians can take us, humans have sought to subjugate one another, and some have proved particularly good ...