The Unseen History of the Greek Intellectuals during the Roman Empire
Charles Freeman on the endurance of Greek culture
Features
Here you can explore our archive of long form pieces, written by expert historians. In these features, they explain where they found their ideas, how they crafted their stories, what new discoveries they have made and arguments they have proposed.
A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879)
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
Mount Rushmore Under Construction (1932)
Doane Robinson, Gutzon Borglum and the Making of a Monument
Life and Death on the Eastern Front
Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Stewart Spring share rare colour photographs from the Second World War
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights
After the amphibious assault by the Union army two days prior, both armies, unknowing of the carnage to come, prepared for battle