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How well do you know the history of Cotton? Take our quiz to find out, and look for Giorgio Riello’s Cotton (on sale June 28) for more on the history of the fabric that defined trade. Cotton:...
It is time to send in the clowns. With North Korea’s new young leader falling into old habits of saber rattling toward South Korea, and with China unwilling to put pressure on it to come into the...
From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, Indian textiles were imported by the European East India companies and were sought after by consumers not just in England, but in most European countries. These...
Operation Typhoon involved over three million men on both sides of the eastern front. Such a figure is hard to comprehend and the truth is, even as an historian, it’s easy to lose sight of the human...
Take a deeper look into the inspiration behind the new Great Gatsby film. Some sources might surprise you.
Today on Into the Intro, we're celebrating one of our favorite national pastimes—The Kentucky Derby, which kicked off this year's Triple Crown races on Saturday. As you gear up for the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, don't forget to catch up on the history, culture, and legacy of the sport with The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing.
Fitzgerald Fever is in full swing at the Cambridge office, and every good party needs a playlist! We present our Gatsby-inspired playlist in honor of the Roaring Twenties.
Do you have the political / historical / literary / geographical / mythological savvy to have written the Bard's canon? Take our quiz to find out!
Launched in October 1941, Hitler’s Operation Typhoon had a simple objective: capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. Operation Typhoon is an incisive, groundbreaking account of Germany’s drive to capture Moscow.
Check out these classic covers of The Great Gatsby.
Amidst a sea of titles on World War II and the German army, David Stahel discusses why a careful study on this German campaign in the eastern theater raises new questions about the war we think we know.
Since the middle of the 19th century, the Shakespeare authorship debate has produced over 70 candidates who may have written the canon of English drama and poetry supposedly composed by William Shakespeare. Here are a few of the people that have been considered throughout the debate.
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