History does not really repeat itself, not exactly. But with both a bachelor's and a master's in history, I can't help but ...

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George ...

One person has died in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv after it came under surprise attack from multiple Russian missile strikes, ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should“take back” the Panama Canal and that ...

Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party adopted it in 1926, calling it the German salute. Intriguingly, there was an American salute that preceded both. A salute to the American flag To modern eyes ...

Poland holds a special position among Kyiv's partners — with a shared history of Russian oppression and conquest, its leaders ...

I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

The transition from empire to nation-states was far from smooth. Most imperial governments hoped to transform their empires ...