European History

How the Future Henry V Began His Royal Career

Dan Jones on the Palace Intrigue Behind the Late 14th-Century Battle For England's Throne

 
By Dan Jones  September 5, 2024
European History

How a Patchwork of Conflicting Narratives Created Contemporary Eastern Europe

By Jacob Mikanowski  July 24, 2023
European History

Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History

By Naoíse Mac Sweeney  May 23, 2023
European History

When One of the World’s Largest Flying Machines Crashed in a French Field

By S. C. Gwynne  May 22, 2023
European History

From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

By Estelle Paranque  December 22, 2022
European History

“With Laughing Cheer, As Is Her Custom.” On the Laughing Queens of Early Modern Europe

By Joy Wiltenburg  July 5, 2022
European History

How Myth, Poetry and Literature Helped Create Early Medieval England

By Marc Morris  June 27, 2022
European History

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

By Mark Mazower  November 17, 2021
European History

The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

By Amy Licence  November 4, 2021
European History

On the Precocious Early Years of Marie Antoinette

By Nancy Goldstone  September 23, 2021
European History

Memorializing History’s Dark Corners With Absurdity

By Keith Lowe  December 10, 2020
European History

The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

By Rory MacLean  January 17, 2020
European History

A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

By Michael Cunningham  November 21, 2019
European History

Retracing the Historical (and Literal) Path of Napoleon’s Retreat from Russia

By Sylvain Tesson  November 21, 2019
European History

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

By Brendan Simms  November 5, 2019
European History

How Napoleon’s Italian Exile Set the Stage for His Return to Power

By Mark Braude  October 24, 2019
European History

How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  September 30, 2019

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