For centuries, European powers dominated the globe, controlling empires that stretched across continents and oceans. One of the most astonishing facts in history is that Europe once ruled over 84% of ...

The Marigny de Mandeville family owned and developed the Faubourg Marigny as well as the huge tract on the north shore of the ...

We still haven’t learned the lesson of 9/11. The problem with searching the world for monsters to destroy is that they follow you home.

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

The sheikhs in Hebron have pre-empted Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas by pursuing peace with Israel, while putting a nail in the coffin of post-colonial regional boundaries.The post The al-Jabari cla ...

We celebrate the Fourth of July with parades, family time and BBQs but it’s an often-forgotten fact that when the Declaration ...

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was a game-changer for the 13 American colonies. This bold move cut ...

Arguably the most important victory of the revolution was won in autumn 1777, on a farm in upstate New York, by a storekeeper ...

July falls on a Friday, serendipitously the same day that this column appears in the Aspen Times. We have a local tradition ...

1298 – An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany. 1625 – The Spanish army took ...