The Great Betrayal in the title of Lebanese-born American professor of international relations Fawaz A Gerges’s new book ...

And working from the shadows is nobleman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Jérémie Renier), a savvy statesman who’s ...

The Fiery Spirits is a very important new analysis of the English Revolution looking at how some radical parliamentarians combined with mass protest to drive events, finds Dominic Alexander While the ...

How to make sense of America’s turbulent times? In my role as historian, I tried on period costumes: togas for the death of ...

Fort Ticonderoga is planning a number of events to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Revolutionary War. The first ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer ...

Chris Anderson was leafing through various books in Allegheny College’s archival collection when he came across a long “lost” artifact. “I was planning an event and I was looking randomly through some ...

The groundbreaking artist and poet who created ‘Little Sparta’ - The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire ...

Some of the book’s strongest research covers the years spanning Reconstruction through Jim Crow, when, Rabin writes, “most ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...