Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

History can tell us a lot about the Crusades, the series of religious wars fought between 1095 and 1291, in which Christian invaders tried to claim the Near East. But the DNA of nine 13th century ...

University of London historian and History Channel contributor Phillips (The Second Crusade) superbly condenses the four centuries of the Crusades into a single, easily accessible volume. Islamic as ...

In this spectacular debut, historian Willetts surveys 350 years of influential international nightlife scenes. She begins with Yoshiwara, a pink-lit “flashy pleasure quarter” in Continue reading » ...

Field reporters in this history-as-news program trace the events of the 12th c. Crusades. In this episode, viewers see the history-as-news treatment of the 12th century Crusades. Many feel the ...

What Pete Hegseth’s fascination with the Crusades can tell us about the war in Iran.

Prologue: Damascus Crossroads -- The abode of Islam -- The frightened sea -- Prey of the sword -- Against the enemies of God -- Testing our might -- The fallen tent -- From every deep valley -- Wolves ...

Anyone schooled in the history of the Crusades will know of Steven Runciman, arguably the 20th century’s leading popular authority on the period. Interminable, relentlessly detailed and compulsively ...

(RNS) — An 800-year-old puzzle about a set of 13th-century floor tiles has added to historians’ thinking about the relationship of Europeans and Arabs at the time of the Crusades. Amanda Luyster, ...

MEDIEVAL HISTORY shows up on the page in two ways. One is obvious: it is written in pen and ink on vellum and parchment. This sort of history tends to be about battles and bloodshed, conquerors and ...