This hefty book is more about context – the turbulent years of mid-19th-century Europe – than it is about its two ...

A medieval French castle dripping with history — and possibly Napoleon’s hidden gold — is for sale, asking $3.8 million.

Today, another 14 years after that, it has fallen to $13,800, according to the World Bank’s data. Mr Putin remains in office, ...

Marguerite Sheffer, Annell Lopez and Vanessa Saunders: 5:30 p.m., Latter Memorial Library, 5120 St/ Charles Ave. Three local ...

Famous for his work on,000, Kopinski is unable to work due to illness, but fans have rushed to support him via fundraiser.

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It is astonishing to see, right before your eyes, the difference that can be wrought in one’s notion of his country in two ...

The trouble with leaders growing long in the tooth, from Napoleon to Putin, is that in the end, every hero becomes a bore ...

When was the first landscape painting made in Europe? And the first abstraction? Art historians love these questions about ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...