The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies established by the British in the ...

In his newly translated novel ’The Sailor’s Secret’, Younis Alakhzami merges colonialism, spiritual belief, and human greed ...

In its place, countries are fast adopting a values-neutral, transactional approach toward foreign policy. China was the progenitor of this approach to international relations: for over a decade, ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely ...

Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire” confront the imperial roots of its botanical collections and challenge long-held ...

An unlikely name is being floated to take charge of U.S. moves in Venezuela after the Trump administration snatched the ...

By late 1814 the United States looked finished with Washington burned and British armies on American soil. But American victories at Plattsburgh and Fort McHenry shattered Britain’s momentum just as ...

The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.

America has toppled governments or otherwise intervened in Latin America many times, and particularly so from the 1850s and, ...

On 1777, General George Washington and his battle-hardened Continental Army secured a decisive victory over the formidable British garrison at ...

Scholars will take a fresh look at the authenticity of a rock purporting to reveal the fate of the Lost Colony of Roanoke ...