A new book reinstates animals as proper subjects of historical inquiry and offers pioneering insights into what animal ...

Introduction: Ingredients of the past -- Part 1: Edible Foundations Of Civilization -- 1: Invention of farming -- 2: Roots of modernity -- Part 2: Food And Social Structure -- 3: Food, wealth, and ...

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Competition from artificial intelligence is a technical challenge and an existential question for historians. But what if it ...

The world of early medieval Europe is sometimes hard to grasp for 21st-century Americans. The fog of the “dark ages” still lingers, casting the period as a fundamentally unknowable time, a period of ...