In France, the name Lafayette is well known, but the man behind it – Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette – often fades into the background of the country’s rich historical tapestry. In the United ...

Two hundred years ago, the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman known as a national hero in helping the colonies to win the ...

I am an avid watcher of Cable News Network (CNN) and a sedulous viewer of the Abby Phillip-hosted ldquo;NewsNight rdquo; ...

Almost exactly two centuries ago, a horse and carriage carrying one of the nation’s biggest celebrities and his small ...

You probably know about the battles at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. But the War of Independence also was shaped in ...

Behind the mass killing and expulsion of Palestinians lies a strategic imperative: to restore Jewish demographic dominance across all territory under Israeli colonial control ...

This was no ordinary expedition. It marked the first in-depth study of the geology, ocean conditions, and marine life beneath ...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, the cleric formerly known as Robert Francis Prevost, is, like me, descended from a long line of Catholic Creoles. It is a distinctly American — and yet also distinctly Caribbean ...

Several West African countries are intensifying efforts to shed remnants of their colonial past by renaming streets, squares, ...

Donald Trump has talked about making Canada a U.S. state. Although the countries have been friendly since World War II, this ...

Life imitates art. Where we find heroes and villains in the popular fiction of our day suggests the landscape of heroes and ...