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In 1868 the pioneer American photographer Alexander Gardner joined a delegation from the US government that was negotiating with the Lakota ...

Tiffany Aching is one of the great characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasies. While the novels she is in are aimed at young ad...

During the Coronavirus pandemic Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year gained a new popularity. Despite being an account of one ma...

It is New York, Christmas ,1932. Prohibition is almost over and so most people are drinking quite heavily. There is a lot of cigarette smoke...

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science. Anyone who has read a small part of his work will be str...

When George Armstrong Custer was killed, alongside all of the men who rode alongside him, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, he was catap...

Running through this, the first of a trilogy of books on Canada's history, is an emphasis on the way that Indigenous Peoples were dispos...

In 1895 bandit Antonio Sonora lives on the border between Mexico and Texas. Sonora came from a very wealthy landowning family, but fallen on...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is probably the novel that most people associate with the Dustbowl of the 1930s. Lois Phillips Hud...

From 1884 until 1920 George Sturt ran a Wheelwright's Shop in the small town of Farnham, Surrey in England. Sturt inherited the business...

I came across Mahmood Mamdani's work while researching for an article on settler colonialism. Mamdani is a key thinker of decolonialism ...

In some ways this book's title is a misnomer. There are no extraterrestrial languages. Or at least none that we yet know of. But Daniel ...

Dr Wortle’s School is a later one of the prolific novelist Anthony Trollope's books. It is also one of the shorter. This era, and type,...

Proponents of nuclear power, whether politicians or representatives of the nuclear industry, have a long history of claiming that their tech...