In pop culture, Boudica is remembered as the fiery Queen of the Iceni; flame-haired, chariot-riding scourge of the Romans, the woman who united the British tribes, burnt down Colchester, London, St. Albans, and defeated an entire Roman legion. Fans of the mid-noughties...

 Race for Empire explains how total warfare shifted ideas, perceptions, and beliefs surrounding racism within Japan and the United States. Fujitani argues that total warfare forced both Japan and the United states to disavow racism and include despised populations with...

            Narratives that reference expansion west during the second half of the nineteenth century often focus on the rugged landscape, untamed wilderness, and hearty men who took control of the untamed Great Plains. Missing from these narratives, however, are the v...

    The historian Amino emphasizes the diversity of the Kamakura period by claiming that the Japanese became increasingly aware of different types of people outside of their familiar region, The rise of warlords and the samurai class during the Kamakura and Muromachi p...

On 4 August 1964, as the USS Maddox was conducting reconnaissance in the Gulf of Tonkin, it was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats.  Two days later, while sailing through stormy weather, the ship’s crew reported they had been attacked for a second time. While S...

                   The Korean War started on June 25, 1950. The outbreak of the Korean War was a culmination of decades’ worth of tension between North and South Korea, rather than an unwarranted invasion, as Truman’s statement would make it appear. The Korean War repr...

In 1876, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, many Americans tasted a banana for the first time.[1] Wrapped in tinfoil, eaten with a fork and knife, and sold for a dime, the banana represented a luxury tropical item.[2]In attendance at the Exposition were repr...

            I am a college-aged, white male interested in the history of the crusades. There was a time when this was not a dangerous demographic, but this has changed, and I dearly wish that it had not. Alt-right, white-supremacist, ultra-conservative movements now wi...

In 1983, Pink Floyd released The Final Cut.  Despite the middling reviews it received from contemporary critics and fans alike, the album, like most of the band’s work, has aged well, and is arguably the group’s most interesting composition in terms of theme and inspir...

The fledgling Roman empire is a source of continued fascination and inspiration for the modern-day historian. The appeal of the era, with its intrigue, violence, and complex characters, transcends historical accuracy and nestles firmly in the pop-culture sub-conscience...