Historic Painting: "The Funeral of Shelley" by Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889.
This painting captures the essence of a defining moment in 19th century Romantic literary history.
Sean Munger
Gerontocracy and the fall of nations.
Speak no evil: the Satanic Verses affair, 34 years on.
The controversy over one of the world's most infamous books still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
Free history books! The best presidential biography I've read.
It started with a bad glass of wine: the St. Scholastica Day riots.
The amazing story of how a single glass of wine led to a violent riot and a watershed moment in English history.
Iran-Contra: the real life "wall of crazy." (Video)
My new video analyzes and deconstructs the poorly-understood foreign policy scandal of the 1980s.
