This month for the “Econ Extra Credit” project, instead of watching a documentary, “Marketplace Morning Report” is watching a feature film based on the historical record, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” ...

The collapse of the world’s leading colonial empires, which occurred in the 1950s, left much of the latter half of the 20th century in turmoil, as one newly independent former colony after another ...

To understand why the world is the way it is now, there’s a question we have to ask: What is imperialism? The history of imperialism helps explain everything from contemporary foreign policy to why ...

Where does exploitation come from? The anarchist Peter Kropotkin is among history’s most insightful critics of capitalism and the exploitative relationships that define it. Kropotkin did not believe ...

For close to a century, the British colonial regime in India ran a narcotic empire which became its second largest source of income after land revenue. Beneath the lucrative British narco trade hides ...

If legitimacy is tied to history, then exactly how that history is interpreted matters beyond conference rooms packed with ...

Photo courtesy of The Wire Every monsoon season in Sri Lanka now arrives with a familiar sequence of events. Heavy rainfall ...

An historian and Professor of African Studies, Toyin Falola, has drawn parallels between Africa’s colonial past and the continent’s emerging digital vulnerability in the age of Artificial Intelligence ...