No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, ...

Christmas in the City of Light is magical, with festive luxury hotels, twinkling lights, and beautiful holiday markets.

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

On October 10, 732 AD, the Frankish leader Charles, nicknamed Martell (the Hammer), defeated the Muslim army near the French cities of Tours and Poitiers, thereby halting the invasion of Arab Muslims ...

A History of the Modern British Aristocracy by Eleanor Doughty (Hutchinson Heinemann) Aristocrats have long been dismissed as ...

Today in History for Nov. 20: ...

The Grevin waxwork museum in Paris unveiled a new star attraction on Thursday: Princess Diana in the "revenge dress" she wore after public revelations about her then-husband prince Charles's affair.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart. By Ted Widmer Ted Widmer is the author of “Lincoln on the ...

ARE reformer-rulers jinxed? Why do they often suffer the dire consequences of the misrule of their predecessors? Sultan Tuman Bay the Second, the Mamluk reformer-ruler of Egypt; Emperor Louis XVI, the ...

Researchers at Laurentian University are reading French books to preschoolers in Sudbury this month to determine the best ways to teach them new words. Roxanne Bélanger, a speech language pathologist ...

Mali’s Ministry of National Education has issued an urgent memo suspending the teaching of the 1789 French Revolution in all ninth-grade classes across the country. The decision, made public on ...