Cogitations Upon The Nature Of History

They say that history is written by the winners. One day the feral scum of Britain will win and roam the country free. My problem is that they can't read or write. Full story

History On Repeat Forever And Ever

Ophelia Field Traces Vice's Ancestors

Ophelia Field is a young and articulate graduate of Christ Church College, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She knows a lot more than you about the early 18th Century. Full story

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Vice Interview

The worst thing about history is the fact that most of the really cool stuff happened centuries ago so anyone who can tell you anything remotely vivid about it has been dead for ages. Full story

VICE Mail

Letters - The History Issue

We don’t know what she’s talking about, but this is the first handwritten letter we’ve gotten in years and look how pretty it is. It’s like an antique. I wonder if she used a feather dipped in ink to write it. Full story

Our Willy

Five Artists Draw Willy Brandt

By Chriss Kunst, Jakob Hinrichs, Vanskap, Mario Wagner, and Mathieu Desjardi. Full story

The Diseases Of Our Leaders

By Neil Hamburger, Comedian

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. That's what someone said. Full story

The History Of Dad

The Vice Interview

My father Stephen has done a lot of pretty cool things that have been significant in recent British history. He started something called the Boilerhouse Project at the V&A in the 80s, set up the Design Museum, wrote a book called Sex, Drink and Fast Cars and didn't let me Full story

John Cheever Goes Under

In 1974, John Cheever accepted a teaching position at Boston University, the better to distance himself from his family and drink in peace. Full story

Literary

Book Reviews - The History Issue

We recently got our hands on a few “history” books a friend of ours brought back from Pyongyang. Full story

Our Father

Six Artists Draw Washington

Illustrations by Brian Degraw, Jon Vermilyea, Laura Park, Victor Cayro, Aran Darling & Milano Chow. Full story

Our Hero

Four Artists Draw Ned Kelly

Illustrations by Brendan Keogh, Justin Williams, Kelly Smith & Rowan Tedge Full story

Prancehall

I was walking down the street the other day when I had an epiphany. I turned to my reflection in a nearby shop window and said, "Hey, you know what? There's more to the world than just UrBaN Mu$iC in that Do It! column." Full story

Thomas Cahill Is Saving Civilization

Over the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobweb-covered professors sitting in all the un… Full story

Art Talk

Barry McGee

The king of West Coast street art in robotic conversation with Aaron Rose of Alleged.