I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, ...

The French Revolution, though bloody and traumatic, has long served as a cautionary lesson for would-be kings and dictators ...

Austrian rail disaster kills 158; Canberra Coup in Australia; Missouri court limits segregation in St. Louis; First ...

Elderly Thais still remember the early years, when she charmed Western crowds. According to Thai tradition, a good king must ...

The streets are echoing with the chant “ No Kings ” in protest of alleged abuses of power by  President Donald Trump.

Thanks to today's video sponsor, a U.S.-based uranium exploration company positioned to power the next energy bull market as ...

In recent years, the Spanish government under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has made three visits to China, reflecting a ...

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

In her excellent introductory book to history as an academic discipline, Thinking about History (2017; Nepal reprint edition 2021), the American historian Sarah Maza suggests that “in order for the ...

IT was after the accident, he said. The accident and the layoff, or was it the layoff first. It didn’t matter, sure, it all happened around the same time anyway, he said. He looked me in the eye as I ...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, the Conservative Secretary of State for Scotland who brought the Stone back to Scotland in 1996, ...

We respectfully commemorate the 87th anniversary of the passing of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), the founding president ...