Guilt can be good. It is healthy when it alerts us to having wronged someone and prompts us to put things right by apologising and repairing any damage we've done. But false guilt is not – the ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

Here are just five of the (many) ways that women have powered the global economy from the Stone Age to the present day.

This school year, many Texas districts are teaching from an elementary curriculum that features extensive content about the ...

Leadership has always played a pivotal role in shaping the course of history. From emperors who redefined empires to ...

Anti-globalisation movements fuse left, right, and conspiracy ideas.Globalisation driven by technology, trade, and centuries ...

Among their finds were tableware, tools, almonds, sailor's sandals and even spear points in the hull – possible evidence that the ship sank in an attack. The ship and many of the artefacts she carried ...

The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are also believed to have been built during ...

Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a murderous psychopath to a depraved tyrant. Is it time to reexamine this ...

Abyssinia, also known as the Ethiopian Empire, was a kingdom encompassing what is now Ethiopia plus, later in its history, ...

The Octagon Earthworks here speak to us from 2,000 years ago — and they speak to the fraught cultural moment in which we find ...

The weakest 'Star Wars' films are the ones that lack any real political depth.