I n current American political discourse, there is ascendant a highly inane interpretation of history — an interpretation that one might call the White Male Theory of History, or WMTH for short ...

The Invention of Pre-History: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins. By Stefanos Geroulanos. Liveright; 512 pages; $29.99 and £22.99 THERE IS NO doubt that the past can shape the ...

a history of political theories. From Luther to Montesquieu. By William Archibald Dunning, Ph. D., LL. D., Lieber Professor of History and Political Philosophy in Columbia University.

Natural selection – it takes two: Darwin's rival Alfred Russel Wallace recognised at last. Explorer is finally taking his place beside Darwin in the theory of evolution ...

James Moore: Darwin and Victorian Culture: Though his theory of natural selection was revolutionary, Darwin the man, by nature, was not. Born in 1809, he lived at a time when radical politics in ...

At 150, Darwin's 'Origin' Stirs Even More Debate On Nov. 24, 1859, a book that changed the world first appeared in print.On the Origin of Species proposed a radical new theory about how all life ...

A History of the Theories of Rain explores the strange effect our current sense of impending doom has on our relation to time, approaching the unfolding climate catastrophe conceptually through ...

Charles Darwin is known as the father of evolution. But another British naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, played a major role in developing the theory of natural selection before fading into ...