Act I: The Strait of Bottlenecks and the Myth of the Empty Map If you glance at a modern map of the Persian Gulf, your...
On the freezing, mist-choked afternoon of November 12, 1330, the most powerful monarch in Central Europe was not sitting on a velvet throne, signing treaties,...
Imagine the weather in Paris on November 11, 1675. It is mid-autumn, the air is crisp, the cobblestones are slick with a damp chill, and...
The Autumn When Free Speech Almost Died in America On the dreary evening of November 10, 1798, inside a cramped, wood-heated legislative chamber in the...
If you have ever received an invitation to a mandatory corporate retreat, a reconciliation dinner with a notoriously dramatic relative, or a “clear the air”...
Act I: The Great Royal Land Grab and the Myth of the Sovereign King Every schoolchild with a passing grade in world history knows about...
The Plain Where Empires Go to Die Panipat is a flat, dusty stretch of ground in Haryana, roughly fifty-five miles north of Delhi. It has...
The Problem With Screaming in the Dark On Thursday evening, November 4, 1847, inside a stately Georgian townhouse at 52 Queen Street in Edinburgh, Scotland,...
The Chilly Kilkenny Morning That Rewrote Legal Absurdity On the grey, frost-bitten morning of Sunday, November 3, 1324, an enormous crowd gathered in the commercial...
On November 2, 1418, while Western Europe was busy tearing itself apart in the aftermath of the Council of Constance and the endless mud-soaked theater...
