Mark Ovenden’s Railway Maps of the World is an amazing assortment of charts, timetables, stats, photos, and posters—as well as Mark Ovenden’s Railway Maps of the World is an amazing assortment of ...

Curated by Ryoya Mizuno and Dina Gusejnova, this international workshop will examine how concepts of modernity, Europe, and the West, developed in the light of changing political constellations ...

Becoming Modern: Early 20th-Century Japan through Primary Sources offers secondary teachers seven lessons that examine a critical period in Japanese and world history: the period of Japan’s ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nigel Cliff BORN IN BLACKNESS Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the ...

In January 1906, several thousand cotton-mill workers rioted on the outskirts of Bombay. Refusing to work at their looms, they pelted factories with rocks, their revolt soon spreading to the heart of ...

Born on the same day, Lincoln and Darwin would forever influence how people think about the modern world Adam Gopnik Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped shape the modern world. Illustration by ...

There is a peculiar modern tendency to describe things we don’t like as belonging to the past. The Taliban are medieval, Donald Trump supporters backward, Brexiteers nostalgic for empire. Under this ...

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped shape the modern world. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello We are all pebbles dropped in the sea of history, where the splash strikes one way and the big tides ...