France extracted a huge indemnity from Haiti, in exchange for recognition of its independence. This week marked the 200th ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

On the Movements of the Earth are excellent examples of historical series that are both entertaining and revealing.

After two centuries, a contrite tone from President Emmanuel Macron, though no talk of reparations for French actions that ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

There Corsica It is not Italian because the Republic of Genoawho owned the island for almost five centuries from the ...

Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

If you agree with Trump that we don’t want to corrupt everything about the U.S., and the Smithsonian shouldn’t be in the ...

During Trump’s first term, in 2017, Macron invited the president as his guest of honor at the annual Bastille Day celebration ...

“Les Misérables” is bringing the revolution to West Palm Beach. The musical — a huge hit from back in the day on NYC’s ...