France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the ...

Algeria’s independence came through the National Liberation War (1954–1962), led by the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN).

Those who attended the 300th birthday party for the comte de Rochambeau celebrated his partnership with Washington, and the civil way they made decisions.

Newside Cemetery in Harrisburg’s eastern suburbs points to 18th-century settlers and a theological dispute that gave the ...

French startup Pazzi Robotics created an AI-powered pizza robot that made pies in under five minutes without human help, but it closed in 2022 despite patents and expert partnerships.

Farr's "delulu" protagonist plays a Patty Hearst-like role in this novel about being 18 and becoming the face of a militant ...

At 80, Oracle's founder – one of the world's wealthiest executives and an eccentric figurehead of the 2000s – has returned to ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

In the same token no good columnist will want to proffer a solution to a mammoth problem like terrorism without first examining the circumstances that brought it about in the first instance. Some few ...

As head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie was notorious for his cruelty. After World War II, he escaped to Bolivia, aided ...

Every month this year, Untapped New York will release a new essay from Jo Holmes about the life and work of the late ...

In the first of two extracts from her new book, Revolution in Carcassonne, Elaine Graham-Leigh explains how and why the city ...