The tension between past empires and modern nationalism remains a challenge, but as the world evolves, this challenge can be ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

Turkey is not the largest power interested in Africa. Its economic engagement, arms sales, and foreign aid are dwarfed by one or more of the major powers.

When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

After the German and Ottoman empires fell following World War ... scholars say. Former colonies such as Mali and Burkina Faso, both led by the military, have now turned against France because ...

The history of coffee begins in Ethiopia, where legend credits its discovery to a goat herder named Kaldi in the 9th century.

Coffee arrived in Venice, Italy, around 1615 through trade with the Ottoman Empire ... introducing it to their colonies in Java (Indonesia) in the late 1600s. This led to the term “Java ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers ...

As an enemy power, the Ottomans were not invited to the talks ... His most recent book is "The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire." He is currently working on the project ...