This article surveys writings on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland over the first forty years of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá Chultúr. Commissioned to mark the journal’s fortieth anniversary, it adopts a cautiously ...

Three hundred years ago, the satirist warned of a world in which reading and writing are replaced by the flashy simulation of human knowledge. Can he help us fix it?

In episode 111 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Lauren Working about how she used objects to tell a new history of England and the Americas in the sixteenth and seventee...

UC Riverside history professor Steven Hackel has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand the Early California Population Project (ECPP).

In Tudor and Stuart England, cactuses and Chesapeake plants grew in London gardens, and much of the silver gleaming in banquets had once travelled on the backs of mules across Panama. Join Lauren Work...

Between 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew more connected by overseas trade and colonization. According to historians Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, accounts o...

Between 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew more connected by overseas trade and colonization. According to historians Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, accounts o...