Civilization is back. But it is no longer the preserve of “Renaissance man” or of “the West,” or even of literate societies. Civilization is a way of talking about human history on the ...

A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.

When countries open up to the free exchange of goods and ideas, the result can be a historic golden age. But trade is rarely ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

Recovering, restoring, and teaching the great books and the lost history of Western Civilization still has the potential to unite a divided nation.

As I argue in my book “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age,” a civilization is not a single, monolithic entity, nor does it disintegrate during a momentary crisis.

The series returns home to its creators. With the unexpected success of Civilization II, another sequel was inevitable, though not before some litigation over naming rights and the launch of ...

THE present volume of Mr. Buckle’s history consists of a deductive application to the history of Spain and Scotland of certain leading propositions, which, in his previous volume, he claims to ...

In any other Civilization, the hexes might have been the headline attraction, but Schafer wasn’t joking about wanting to make big, potentially controversial changes. Stacks of doom were gone.