Acclaimed Italian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will bring his thought-provoking film, “We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” to the Wexner Center for ...

From the stone circles of the Neolithic through the glories of Rome and the Renaissance to the ravages of the world wars, ...

"Even though the Iron Curtain fell decades ago, today's historiography often still includes a Cold War inspired East-West perspective, especially when it comes to the topic of violence. Western Europe ...

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 ...

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.

A coalition of Penn professors directed by Russian and East European Studies professor Mitchell Orenstein recently launched a new European Studies Institute at the University. The Institute, which was ...