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Who gets to be “American”? Geography, history, and the US claim to the name America

Geographically, the term America doesn’t refer to a single country. It refers to a vast landmass stretching from the Arctic Circle to the southern tip of Patagonia, which English speakers …

The colonisation of Chile: The long road to freedom

Few nations on Earth occupy as dramatic a geography as Chile. Stretched along the southwestern edge of South America like a ribbon of extremes. From the driest desert on the planet in the north to the …

The Mexican Revolution: Fire, land, and a nation remade

A country on the brink By the dawn of the twentieth century, Mexico had endured three decades under the iron hand of Porfirio Díaz. His regime, known as the Porfiriato, had modernised the country …

New Zealand: The dark history of Māori colonisation

When contact became conquest The colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand is often remembered through the language of treaties, settlement, and partnership. But beneath that narrative lies a far …

Keep hope alive: The rise, power, and legacy of Jesse Jackson

October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026 Civil rights leader, Baptist Minister, presidential candidate, and voice of the voiceless Origins: A son of the South Jesse Louis Burns came into the world …

Ernesto “Che” Guevara: : The revolutionary icon

Few figures in twentieth-century history have inspired as much devotion and provoked as much controversy as Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary whose life and death …

The 3 Best free online libraries for reading books and historical sources

For students, writers, researchers, and history lovers, access to reliable books and primary sources can feel like a luxury. Academic databases often sit behind paywalls, rare historical texts can …

Bay of Pigs 1961: The CIA’s failed invasion that changed the Cold War

In April 1961, a small, heavily armed force of Cuban exiles stormed a remote stretch of Cuba’s southern coastline, expecting to spark a nationwide uprising that would topple revolutionary leader Fidel …

Bartolomé de las Casas and the birth of human rights

In the blood-soaked early decades of Spanish conquest in the Americas, one man’s voice rang out against the violence with a fury that would echo across centuries. Bartolomé de las Casas, …

William Randolph Hearst: The king of Yellow Journalism

Few Americans have shaped the modern media landscape as profoundly, or as controversially, as William Randolph Hearst. He didn’t just publish newspapers; he weaponised them. He didn’t merely report …

Martin Robison Delany: The Abolitionist, Civil War Major, and Father of Black Nationalism

Martin Robison Delany was many things in one lifetime — abolitionist, doctor, newspaper editor, explorer, political theorist, soldier, and arguably the first major Black nationalist thinker in …

Standing firm in power and pride: Eight Black people who shaped history

The theme for UK Black History Month this year is “standing firm in power and pride”, a fitting lens through which to examine some of the individuals whose lives embodied resilience, …