Christofle, A brilliant story” is the first comprehensive retrospective on the French silversmith and runs until April 20 at ...

Of all Napoleon’s marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte’s career was the most unusual. As a young soldier in the French ...

Rebel. Celebrity. Hero. Traitor. Corsican revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli was one of Europe’s most famous and divisive ...

The desire to be vindicated is as old as history itself because history cannot help but create winners and losers; history ...

There isn’t a Hollywood director with a sense of scale, scope, and range quite like Ridley Scott.

Gladiator II 'is hitting theaters, but what about 'Gladiator III'? We're going to explore what Ridley Scott might have in ...

After a standoff triggered by Vice President Sara Duterte’s attempt to keep her detained chief of staff Zuleika Lopez from ...

He has also been sued by France’s National Institute of Appellations ... including hand-illustrated viticulture guides from 1857 commissioned by Napoleon III, 300-year-old leather books ...

Not unlike many of the Renaissance families of Italy, the Borgias were power hungry, corrupt, and self-indulgent. But their dynasty produced two popes—are they worthy of this notorious legacy?

With royal figures occupying so much space in history and culture, it makes sense that many monarchs have felt haunted in the ancient palaces and castles they inhabit.

On October 7, 1870, one of those minor, anecdotal episodes that pepper History amidst greater events took place. A hydrogen ...

L.Q.C. Lamar, now Secretary of the Interior, returned from Europe, where he had interviewed in Europe Henry John Temple, (Lord Palmerston,) then Premier, and also Napoleon III, of France ...