Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, ...

For the past decade, scholars have been debating how to make sense of Donald Trump’s rise and rule. They have cycled ...

Musicians have been making music about global events and complex societal issues for centuries. What do they bring to the ...

On December 2, 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. During the coronation, he received the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself ...

A reader says Beethoven would be bewildered that the European Commission plans to borrow €150bn to buy weapons of destruction ...

Famous foreigners have often attracted large American crowds, but neither the Beetles nor the Rolling Stones nor Winston ...

Last week, Trump posted a fake Time magazine cover picturing himself wearing a crown ... attributed to the 19th-century French emperor and dictator Napoleon. That’s not exactly the Founding ...

This was the Napoleon who declared himself Emperor of France in 1804. At almost the same time, the White House social media also sent out a picture of Trump wearing a crown. On his social media ...

"Napoleon's on his deathbed and one of the things that this great emperor, great conqueror ... Washington turned away the crown and became a republican president; Napoleon grabbed the crown ...

This is the statement of a president who believes that he is above the law and is a type of Caesar, king, emperor ... of himself on his Truth Social site depicted as a king wearing a crown ...