Looking back at Russia's past and present history and reality, Patriarch Kirill condemns those who ‘call for the purity of Islam or Orthodoxy,’ because ‘we may have different cul ...

Over the past century, the Trondheim Synagogue has weathered isolation from the rest of the Jewish world; the Holocaust, which wiped out half its community; challenges related to Shabbat ...

An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

Mr. Brooke has traveled to about 100 countries reporting for the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Voice of America. He reported ...

Oops! The planned National Garden of American Heroes accidentally serves to highlight the importance of welcoming ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The Sick Man of Europe." ...

Both governments need to more explicitly link or condition the U.S. relationship to their own global and regional political, ...

The L.A. Phil opens a Hollywood Bowl season filled with Russian music as Thomas Sondergard conducts and pianist Kirill ...

Incentives matter in other kinds of conflict, too. Pirates of the 18th century were also keen to avoid fighting. Not only was ...

I can completely understand the history of the symbol. However, that history was erased the minute the Nazis took it over,” ...

Europe extracted resources from vast territories across the globe during certain periods of history, Igor Shishkin, an expert ...