France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in...

Studying the world’s oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked...

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated.Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the...

Beer for breakfast, ale for lunch, stout with dinner and a few mugs in between. The average Northern European, including women and children drank three liters of beer a day. That’s almost two six-packs, but...

We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.

At this time to refuse or neglect to give coffee to their wives was a legitimate cause for divorce among the Turks.” William H. Ukers (1873-1945).

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants […] Within two hundred years of Europe’s first cup, famine and the plague were historical...

[Joffe], during a visit to Russia, complained to his KGB handler about the awful coffee. The KGB dude replied that it was really the Kremlin’s answer to America’s neutron bomb — both killed people but...