The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer and Matchmaking ...

Hanoi, a city of a hundred lakes, has an island in the centre called Banana Island. No marks for guessing what it grows!

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Miles Unger follows Vincent van Gogh’s time living in the bohemian Montmartre district, and its explosive effect on the ...

After a long Carnival season, the fun keeps going in spring in New Orleans with festivals of all sizes, concerts, comedy, ...

The musical dives into beautiful and tumultuous journey of unforbidden love between a young peasant woman and a young man, who is the descendant of French nobility. Guided by powerful island gods ...

History,” wrote Winston Churchill, “will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” This oft-cited quip cuts to the heart of a ...

Successive American presidents went on to devote themselves to making the world safe for the democracy project. And, now ...

The historic buildings and land that the January fires spared and destroyed. The Southern California properties come with tales that go back more than a century.

All of these are wealthy women who have built retail ... me of stories about the doomed French queen swanning about her bespoke rustic cottage in peasant garb for kicks. Sure, historians debate ...

a 19th-century military uprising against Anglo-French imperial influence that took place in the city. An Egyptian colonel of peasant origins, Ahmed Urabi, led a revolt against the ruling viceroy ...

Last week, the National Archives released more than 77,000 pages from the JFK Assassination Records containing material that has been hidden from the public for more than 60 years. We’ve been poring ...