Photos from the American Library in Paris reveal how librarians brought books to US troops during World War I.

With actual samurai sidelined as Japan modernized in the nineteenth century, Italians were able to cherry-pick the aspects of the samurai’s image that they found most relevant. Some Fascists admired ...

What did Hadrian’s Wall actually do? Its history challenges the idea that walls simply separate one side from another.

Three nineteenth-century memoirs reveal the risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller.