COLUMN. The history of the Czech Republic and Slovenia only partly explains the starkly contrasting stances these two ...

Today in History for Nov. 16: In 1686, Britain and France signed the Treaty of Neutrality governing possession in North America in the event of war in Europe. In 1776, British troops captured Fort ...

Two friends emailed from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British ...

The 15th-century Bible, commissioned by Duke Borso D'Este, is rarely seen in public. It was transported to Rome under heavy ...

The French New Wave gets a fresh coat of paint with "Nouvelle Vague," director Richard Linklater's lovely and loving tribute to the revolutionary film movement and the making of Jean-Luc ...

By working to block and strangle the class struggle, Mélenchon’s organization enabled Macron to install a new right-wing ...

In the 2015 attacks, 130 people were killed, including at the Bataclan concert hall. France is still wrestling with how to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday praised the release of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, calling it "the ...

The American Revolution premieres on WTTW on Sunday, November 16 through Friday, November 21 at 7:00 pm. All six parts will be free to stream on the PBS app starting Sunday, November 16 at 7:00 pm and ...

The six-part, 12-hour series aims to bring depth and complexity to the founding of the United States by using 400 ...

Market narratives often exaggerate the impact of new technologies, leading to extreme overreactions in stock valuations.

History’s gears are lubricated by gore. Witness America’s Revolutionary War, whose continuing reverberations have done more to improve the course of human events than any other event in history.The wa ...