Stabilizing a great power rivalry that never found its footing would require both countries to reconsider their global and regional roles, rather than continuing to aggravate each other and leading to ...

In this case, “there” is actually “here.” This summer, the United States of America turns 250 years old, and it will do so as an unquestioned and long-established world power governed under the rules ...

Theodore Sedgwick distrusted democracy, feared political equality and believed society should be guided by educated, propertied elites. Yet at a moment when partisan fury threatened to break the ...

Discover 15 pairs of famous historical figures who spent their lives as mortal enemies, only to pass away around the same time.

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. ( NEWS10) — A 250-year-old knapsack is on display at Fort Ticonderoga. Carried by a Revolutionary War ...

Frank Dikötter’s new history of the Chinese Communist Party paints a powerful but incomplete picture of its rise to power.

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

French lawmakers voted on Thursday to formally repeal slavery-era laws that ​defined the legal status of enslaved people as "movable property" and justified abuse and corporal punishment, ‌though they ...

An opinion piece draws parallels between the French Revolution's causes and current American political issues, urging readers ...

View of houses burning during the Haitian Revolution. Credit: Chateau des ducs de Bretagne - Musee d’histoire de Nantes, Allain Guillard When we talk about the African diaspora, we mean the voluntary ...

A tiny, mismanaged island remade hemispheres for decades. Now it is dying. The myth, unfortunately, will outlast the wreckage ...