Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best European monarchs from across all of history. Elizabeth I was the Queen of England from 1558 until 1603, reigning as the ...

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 ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...

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, ...

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 spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the 6th century CE, Slavic groups began to appear in the written records of ...

“History,” it has been said, “doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Events from the past may not recur in exactly the same fashion, but in ways similar enough to be instructive. We couldn’t ...

From the stone circles of the Neolithic through the glories of Rome and the Renaissance to the ravages of the world wars, Europe boasts a history of extraordinary richness. Alexander the Great, ...