A trove of objects that portray Napoleon Bonaparte at his most powerful—and his most personal—sold for a whopping total of nearly $10 million at auction. An iconic portrait of the French emperor at ...

Mr. Mazower is a professor of history at Columbia. “History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described as “our chief ...

A lot has gone on in 2025. It’s been a while since we took a breath and enjoyed ourselves — since the headlines haven’t been flooded with words we don't really want to read. In the midst of the noise, ...