Nineteenth-century History

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How the Tsars Started a Mexican Wave

by Anna Geurts on July 9, 2016

The Mexican wave: seemingly bound up with the world of modern sports and television, my work as a travel historian has recently brought me face to face with a much older instance of this clever

Whose ‘Civic Army’? Ferguson, Policing, and Early American Democracy

by Charlie Thompson on November 26, 2014

The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the

A Nineteenth-Century Trojan Horse Plot: The Philadelphia Bible Riots

by Andrew Heath on June 9, 2014

The story resonates in headlines today. In the midst of a long depression, a cabal of unassimilated foreigners hatch a

Dirt or development?

by Anna Geurts on February 24, 2014

British air is too dirty, according to the EU. And Sheffield is one of the cities particularly affected. But who decides

Striking a chord: the launch of Faith and Fear in Philadelphia

by James Pennock on November 26, 2013

History is rife with omens. The problem is that their nature – good or bad – can only be determined with

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The Gettysburg Address 150 Years On

by Andrew Heath on November 19, 2013

150 years ago, outside a small town in central Pennsylvania, Abraham Lincoln dedicated a military ceremony on a field that just a few months before had witnessed a clash between two vast armies. The Union

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