Wars are always ugly, but sometimes peace accords are ugly too. They often require excruciating concessions. This may be ...

If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through ... But, never fear, Jim. England, France, Germany, and the Low Countries, too, can be brought to heel. When Knebel wrote his ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...

War is the practical field for testing combat doctrine and developing practical experience in the military domain. However, how can its theoretical ...

In 1809, Jean François Tourcaty did something both strange and remarkable: he mapped a country through its food. Not its ...

But a war that erupted in 1870 between France and German states led by Prussia diverted the energies of the monument's designer, French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The gift also took ...