Anson “Andy” Rabinbach, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, died from complications of a heart attack at the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in Rome on Feb. 2. He was 79.

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

World history or Western European history? John Sise’s recent letter pointed out how papal edicts of the 15th century stated that European civilization and Western Christianity are superior to all ...

This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English. “Where in time and space can we ...

Prague is one of Europe’s best-preserved cities, having been spared from last century’s bombs. Nowhere is this more evident than in the hilltop Castle Quarter, which looms above the city and dominates ...

Certain European cities have truly ancient roots, but Budapest’s origin story dates closer to the founding of Chicago than Rome. The city has a few notable ruins — a northbound highway runs right by ...