Instead, I’ve been poring over Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. The 1996 volume looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and yet that distant history rhymes with ...

Openly racist attitudes to the Palestinian people are pervasive in the European and American political mainstream, from the liberal center to the far right. This form of bigotry is a gateway through ...

The "Little France of America" offers a French cultural and aesthetic experience without the crowds of New Orleans!

The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies ... was occupied by New Zealand during World ...

Due to runoff into water sources, roughly 90% of the population of the two islands test positive for chlordecone in their blood. Rates of prostate cancer, which are linked to the carcinogenic ...

The U.S. Mint has played an important role in popularizing the hobby of coin collecting in America. Through creating commemorative coins and series, such as the one-dollar coins featuring American ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It ...

Two sisters who witnessed H-bomb tests over their Pacific island and are still coming to terms with the fallout.

Now starting his 41st year in jail, Lebanese communist Georges Abdallah is Europe’s longest-held political prisoner. French authorities keep finding pretexts to deny his release, trampling on civil ...

Much attention has been paid to France’s relationship with New Caledonia in recent months, but France has also been compelled ...