A recent study conducted by Slate confirms that trade history books—those intended for a general audience, not a solely academic one—are (big surprise) mostly written by men. Of the study,… Read more »

One casualty of the Arab Spring, the Institute of Egypt in Cairo, which caught fire last December during the protests in Tahrir Square, and which, Egyptian news sources report, the… Read more »

The burning of the ancient Royal Library at Alexandria ranks among history’s greatest tragedies and depending on the era and bias of the historian “recording” its loss, blame has been… Read more »

There was an interesting story published a couple of days back in the the Sydney Morning Herald concerning a traveling art exhibit titled Handwritten. At the exhibit sheets from Beethoven’s… 3 / Read more »