Act I: A Supper at the Pope’s Head and a Spaniel with a Brand-New Lease on Life If you had walked down Cornhill in the...
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...
