Matthew Wills

Tiny island states, usually former British colonies, have been re-colonized by global finance and now depend on “archipelago capitalism” for survival.

By law, all communications seen and/or touched by a United States president are supposed to be preserved. Reality—and executive privilege—is a lot messier.

In a world of globalized trade, an industry of piratical lawyers has arisen to help transnational corporations seize the assets of supposedly sovereign states.

Through the work and writing of Matilda Tone, her late husband, Theobold Wolfe Tone, was constructed as the hero of Irish republicanism.

When George III issued a proclamation forbidding settlement west of a line running through the Appalachian Mountains, colonists decided they'd had enough.

The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The potato fundamentally changed world history. So argued historian William H.

Although their contributions have been largely forgotten, women played an active role in Washington DC's air defense system during World War II.

The term “peer review” was coined in the 1970s, but the referee principle is usually assumed to be as old as the scientific enterprise itself. (It isn't.)

The potato fundamentally changed world history. So argued historian William H. McNeill over a career spanning more than fifty years, from his doctoral thesis on the influence of the potato on Irish history in 1947 to this 1999 article on the potato's two periods of “critical difference for world history.”