Some see Queen Elizabeth II's death as an opportunity to acknowledge the struggles of those who were affected by British ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Matthew J. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, about the commonwealth's complicated history. The ...

The legacy of British colonialism still looms large and to those from former colonies, Queen Elizabeth II was a symbol of all that was stolen. Maya Jasanoff, professor of history at Harvard University ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Left-wing intellectuals have transformed the complex history of “colonialism” into an all-encompassing slander against the West. A practice dating back to the ancient world, colonialism involves a ...

Gandhi leading the famous Salt March in 1930 to protest British rule in India. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Subscribe for ads-free reading The internet certainly has a bottling effect, often creating ...

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...

The queen reigned through many global upheavals, including the end of the British Empire. And as some critics have pointed out, remembrances may not feel complete without acknowledging the impact of ...