Van Reybrouck has produced a richly textured history of Indonesia’s struggle for independence and its emergence as a sovereign state.

The one-year MA in Modern History, given by the Department of International History, provides broad coverage of the origins, formation and reinvention of the modern world. This is enabled by a ...

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped shape the modern world. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello We are all pebbles dropped in the sea of history, where the splash strikes one way and the big ...

Visualizing Japan in Modern World History was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with support from the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia at the Program for Teaching East ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...