The Opium Wars of the mid-19th century were fought between the Western powers and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. Two wars took place, both fought essentially over the illegal ...

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The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French ...

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A socialist party will inevitably make compromises when dealing with reformist forces. The challenge is maintaining ...

France celebrates Bastille Day on Monday with parades, fireworks, and festivities nationwide. The holiday marks the 1789 ...

“The critics are not supposed to like everything that Tate does. They never have,” Balshaw says, firmly. Visitors expect to be challenged by what they see and experience when they visit a Tate museum, ...

During the war, the Thuilliers’ yard became a makeshift studio. Eventually, they painted a backdrop featuring classical ...

Depicted: Queen Elizabeth, mounted on a mule, preventing a civil war in 1323, on the field of Alvalade (‘St. Elizabeth of ...

The Sri Lankan meetings were part of the campaign waged by the International Committee of the Fourth International to build a ...

The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous ...

Davis Bourgeois Pepke and her sister Ryan each got married within a year of each other, so she and her dad came up with the perfect way to spend their final day together sharing the same last name.