Many advocated the internationalization of atomic weaponry after the war. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle did not.

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...

The New Haven museum bills “Hew Locke: Passages” as the artist’s most comprehensive show to date, including 49 works spanning ...

But all of that lay ahead on Tuesday, October 29, 1929—a day that the economist John Kenneth Galbraith would later describe ...

Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of ...

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...

Tate Britain presents the first major London retrospective in forty years of Edward Burra (1905–1976), one of Britain’s most ...

Azzurri will be in the World Cup, not in football but cricket, as Italy have created history by qualifying for next year's Twenty20 World Cup. They lost their last game to the Netherlands on Friday in ...

Before Orson Welles, who died 40 years ago on October 10, directed his masterpiece "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that ...