The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

Sotheby’s has postponed the controversial sale of a dazzling cache of jewels linked to the remains of the Buddha after ...

Alluri Sitarama Raju played a crucial role in the struggle for India's independence. He was a youthful Indian revolutionary ...

Archaeologists in St. Augustine, Florida, have made an exciting discovery that sheds light on the city’s brief but significant period of British colonial rule. The excavation, conducted in the ...

(The history of Hong Kong, visualized.) In 1843, in the aftermath of the First Opium War, British colonial forces took over Hong Kong. But the walled city—so named because of fortifications like ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.

As part of Paul Revere’s plan to alert the colonists, the British troops were moving by sea, not land, on the night of April ...

Spring has arrived in the Connecticut River Valley, and with it, the gates of history swing open once more at the Fort at No.