European History

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

Joy Wiltenburg Considers the Power of Laughter In Female Rulers

 
By Joy Wiltenburg  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