Exiled Surrealists found freedom in Mexico, creating visionary art, social circles, and rivalries that changed modern art ...

The Concert of Europe, also known as the Congress System, was established after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. It describes the peaceful functioning of an international system based on the balance of ...

The “Reconquest” of the Roman West was one of the major accomplishments of Emperor Justinian I (527-565). Following a series of successful campaigns – the “Justinian Reconquest” – the Roman Empire ...

Pollice Verso (the Turned Tumb), by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1872, via Columbia College The Amphiteatrum Flavium, or the Colosseum, was built during the reign of the Flavian Roman emperors Vespasian (69-79 ...

In western Africa, different communities practice the religion of Voodoo, a belief system based on the idea that their ancestors co-exist with the living, serving as protectors and granters of favors.

China’s claim to over 5,000 years of continuous civilization raises a powerful question. With ancient empires like Egypt and Mesopotamia now gone, is China the world’s longest-lasting civilization?

Alaska may have only been a constituent of the US since 1867, but the native Tlingit people have called it home for 10,000 ...

If you are in the United States, these are the must-see, world-class museums and institutions that preserve the stories and ...

In medieval England, common lands were set aside for peasants to cultivate. Chaos ensued when lords and landowners began ...

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 not only ended 15 centuries of Byzantine rule, but it also marked a significant milestone ...

Unaware of the disastrous ecological impact of certain actions, human beings have made some grim decisions that have led to ...

Map showing the Delian League and Peloponnesian League before the Peloponnesian War, W.L. Westermann, 1912. Source: Wikimedia Commons After the second Persian invasion of Greece, the allied Greek ...