On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

In his portrait, he gazes with his eyebrows raised – inquisitive ... over the next two decades until finally ending in the 1860s. The Amistad rebels inspired other captives: In 1841, as the ...

The National Assembly on February 11 passed the Members of Parliament Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill 2025, more ...

For folks visiting Cambodia, it’s difficult not to arrive without at least some stay in Phnom Penh. The noisy and chaotic ...

Bill Hader revels in his nasty streak as veteran TV newsman Herb Welch, a crank who’s been on the air for six or seven decades, as his glasses get thicker and his fuse gets shorter. Herb is prone to ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

Paul Delaroche’s Execution of Lady Jane Grey is a mesmerizing piece that captures the essence and tragedy of one of England’s most ill-fated queens, who was beheaded at the Tower of London at just 17.

I was struck by two things: the onomastic oddity of his name (what Muslim man from what is now Nigeria would bear such an incongruous appellative identifier as “Nicholas Said” in the 1860s?) and the ...