Under British orders, South Africa launched a daring attack on the German colony of South West Africa. The fighting had a ...

The Iberian Peninsula was invaded in the 8th century CE by the Muslim Umayyads. The Umayyad state, known as the Umayyad Caliphate, was based in Damascus. The Umayyads brought an army from North Africa ...

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

Taira no Masakado was an aristocrat who went from arguably the first samurai warlord to “new emperor” and finally one of ...

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

Panamanian Geisha coffee costs over $13,000 a pound because rarity, terroir, and fierce auctions converge in one luxury crop.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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