Potato salad is a staple in this country, but it turns out, despite American passion for the dish, its roots go back to ...

The Crossing” shows how artists have had their way with the American Revolution’s most iconic image over the last two centuries.

Explore 25 National Flags And Their Meanings! Uncover the rich history, culture, and symbolism behind flags from around the ...

"I want you to notice this corner very carefully. Florence. A half-century hence the business of New York will be centred between 34th and 42nd Streets. Here is to be the future business of ...

France’s most celebrated writer of the age, Victor Hugo, who famously dismissed the second emperor as “Napoléon le petit” and who exiled himself to Jersey for the duration of the Empire; and Karl Marx ...

He painted leaves, grass and even bark with the precision of a chef applying a micro-garnish with tweezers. The result? Looking at his work feels a lot like eating your greens ...

A hostile caricature depicts Friedrich Engels as an arch-determinist who presented human beings as the puppets of economic forces. In fact, his historical writings were subtle and sophisticated, ...

Anti-government protesters have clashed with groups of government loyalists once again, 10 days since mass protests began. President Hosni Mubarak says in an interview with US broadcaster ABC that he ...

Graphic Novel Evokes Legacy of Lower Manhattan as Home to First Jews in North America. The first Jewish congregation in the United States, Shearith Israel, was established in Lowe ...

Marx and Engels wrote three surveys of the revolutions which started across Europe in 1848 — Revolution and ...

Mara Rockliff, illus. by Vincent X. Kirsch. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-544-13001-2 Rockliff (The Grudge Keeper) and Kirsch (Noah Webster and His Words) pay playful tribute to a ...

For the first time since Jan. 30, the date on which Adolf Hitler sprang alarmingly to power, Germany’s leading bankers and industrialists chomped their five meals a day last week with perfect peace of ...