Marguerite Bourgeoys brought education and faith to the wilderness of New France, becoming Canada’s first female saint.

Is New Orleans safe? That was a question I kept asking myself over the course of four nights at a hotel just a short walk ...

Colonialism – the act of subjugating a native population – often entails imposing the invading country’s own cultural values ...

The central importance of slavery to the rise of capitalism is illustrated by the story of the voyage of the Zong, a British ...

A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay ...

MIDDLEBURY - French Army Gen. Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau and his troops marched directly through this area in the summer of ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried ...

It is yet unclear why Akufo-Addo decided to severe diplomatic relations with Western Sahara in favour of the illegal ...

Benjamin was a generally unhappy, unlucky and unwell man. He was also the most original thinker of modernity, obsessed with ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

Desperate to impoverish himself, he tries to donate a large amount of his father’s money to a local church; the priest, ...

January 18th marks the beginning of the 250th anniversary celebration of the Revolutionary War and the celebration starts ...