NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...

Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It's not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many. Historian ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

Britain’s expansion was the forefather of FDI and globalisation, but it wasn’t always welcomed, as this sketch from a 19th-century US magazine shows. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images). At its height ...

King Charles III stopped short of apologising for “unjustifiable” British colonial violence when he visited Kenya in October. A new book by the historian Stacey Hynd shows the depth of British ...

In this alternate history scenario, the United Kingdom launches an ambitious mission to reclaim its former colonies. Egypt ...