Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

The Cold War is often portrayed as a great power struggle between the forces of democracy and a spreading communist threat. But what if the conventional story gets it exactly backward? In this episode ...

Enslaved persons, sailors, and other groups at the bottom of the colonial hierarchy of power rose up against their oppressors. These rebellions struck fear in the heart of rulers everywhere, and ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

The Iran-Israel conflict did not begin with uranium. Its roots run deep through colonial partitions, imperial betrayals and shifting alliances that have scarred the region for generations ...

The program is funded by a portion of a gift from Princeton 1970 alumnus William Fung of Hong Kong that is designed to ...

Around 44,000 people were repatriated to France, among them colonial officials, soldiers and their families, the descendants of French colonizers and local women, as well as local collaborators.

In particular, the French colonial empire, ... In 1911, the Frenchman Henri Fauconnier brought the first palm oil seeds, a plant originally from Africa, to Malaysia.

Northern Ireland We may view ourselves as anti-colonial, but many Irish were keen participants in empire building Trinity College Dublin’s Professor Jane Ohlmeyer charts the role of the Irish in ...

Lubrin is the first Canadian recipient. The prize comes with a perk: a five-night stay at Fogo Island Inn in Joe Batt’s Arm, N.L., where rooms with meals start at $3,000 a night.

More than 60 years after most African states gained independence, the legal infrastructure imposed by former colonial powers continues to exert outsized influence. Across the continent, outdated ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became independent, 200 years ago, was the first in a series of inequities against the ...