From the mid-19th century onward, Irish and Indian nationalists forged strong personal and associational connections, ...

Virji Vora was a significant credit provider and client for both the Dutch East India Company and the British East India ...

But this week, she received a title that even the most extravagant accessory couldn’t outshine. On Tuesday, February 18, ...

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in ...

From Habsburg Spain to Trump’s America, there’s no escaping the consequences of spending more on interest payments than on ...

Chimaji Appaji remains one of the foremost military generals of the Maratha Empire who inflicted a crushing defeat on the ...

Are Donald Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland serious or just grandiose bluster? As an historian, I take their ...

Named after British horticulturists John Evelyn and the prevelence of crabtrees in England, this bath and body-care empire was founded in 1973 by Cyrus Harvey—no relation whatsoever—a New Englander ...

Before 1947 there was no India. Instead, the British Empire controlled the land mass now mostly known as India, some of it ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

In recent years many viewers have accused the national broadcaster of falling prey to obsessive political correctness and left-wing talking points.

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...