Over two millennia ago, the Romans built a canal while battling the Celts, and scientists in France may have just […] ...

From the olive wreaths of Olympic champions to the gold crowns of Hellenistic aristocrats, wreaths have symbolized glory, ...

France’s easternmost region, Alsace, is also one of its most enchanting — thanks largely to its location. Pressed up against ...

Origins of common household items, revealing how war, accidents, and industrial breakthroughs transformed these innovations ...

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as “king of the ...

Elton, professor of history at the University of Cambridge, upended the field with this book, proclaiming Thomas Cromwell “the most remarkable revolutionary in English history.” Elton argued that ...