Napoleon Bonaparte transformed Europe through a series of bold military campaigns and strategic conquests that expanded the ...

Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...

Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a ...

What the National Endowment for the Humanities's paltry summer funding for scholars says about the administration's worldview ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

THE most remarkable feature of the meteorology of the northern hemisphere for August, 1878, as compared with ... at New York being 0.150 inch. In Europe this lowering of the pressure extended ...

trying to match the route with some of the battle maps from 1877 and 1916 that I had with me in my bag. For most of my life, I had never heard of Kars; now I was coming to the view that its fate ...

Johannes Putsch’s 1533 map personified the continent as a queen and inspired a wave of mapmaking that depicted places as people, animals, and even plants. "Europa regina" ("Queen Europe") is ...

Because this map wasn’t just a record. It was a reframing… The year was 1878. The British had just assumed control of Cyprus from the Ottomans as part of a secret agreement. Officially ...

John joined Newsweek in 2020 after reporting in Central Europe and the United Kingdom. He is a graduate of National Chengchi University in Taipei and SOAS, University of London. Languages ...

Plans have emerged for a new high-speed train stopping in every single European country ... and manufacturing components. A map for the trainline shows it would stop in London, Liverpool, Belfast ...