From the stone circles of the Neolithic through the glories of Rome and the Renaissance to the ravages of the world wars, ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

Over the course of his life, English author and Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh insisted that the Catholic Faith is fundamental to the identity of Europe. A seasoned travel writer, war correspondent, ...

History, Vol. 103, No. 3 (356), Special Issue: Narrating Europe: Conceptions of European History and Identity in Historiography and Intellectual Thought (July 2018), pp. 469-484 (16 pages) H. Brugmans ...

"Even though the Iron Curtain fell decades ago, today's historiography often still includes a Cold War inspired East-West perspective, especially when it comes to the topic of violence. Western Europe ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Anson “Andy” Rabinbach, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, died from complications of a heart attack at the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in Rome on Feb. 2. He was 79.

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

Lacking any quantitative evidence, I'd wager that a majority of Americans primarily associate Central and Eastern Europe with travel, a trip they took or hope to take — like a visit to Prague or ...