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We live in an age of monsters. Humans have created monsters as well as defined who is a "monster." A new book explores what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future.

In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.

For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.

As climate change intensifies, we can learn a lot from the way that the Middle East has dealt with extreme heat. The region offers invaluable lessons – both cautionary and inspirational – for our warming world.

Archaeologist William T. Taylor shares a behind-the-scenes tour of the fieldwork and discoveries that inspired HOOF BEATS, a new book that explores how horses forever altered the course of human history.

By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved HymnIt may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In fact, the link between “Amazing Grace” and slavery is clear and fairly obvious: the author of “Amazing Grace,” John Newton, had bee

Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.

Stefan Aune on the cultural hold the Indian Wars have in the United States and on its military.

By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical WorkersIn the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was the target of the most intensive campaign of state-sponsored repression in American history. A story of violence, law,