A unique and expansive 13th-century text that set out to chronicle the history of humankind is being translated and analyzed ...

The preparation and drafting of these three new volumes constitutes a pivotal scientific production by UNESCO for a better understanding of African history and historiography. In this respect, it ...

The rewriting of national history is a calculated move to bolster an increasingly authoritarian government, as it relies ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

The overshadowing of Bon by Buddhism in Tibet was not merely a spiritual shift but a complex socio-political transformation involving royal authority, scholarly exclusion, and historical revision.

Eminent historian and academic Dr Meenakshi Jain has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha, a move seen as a recognition of her ...

The University of Washington School of Drama has announced Dr. Scott Magelssen as its new Executive Director, effective July ...

Our expert historian and columnist surveys the historical field and picks a shelf’s work of books that every intelligent reader ought to own ...

Professor Harish Trivedi, a distinguished academic and bilingual writer, discusses his groundbreaking anthology "Indian Literary Historiography" on TOI Bookmark. As a former English professor at ...