On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine. A Reuters witness ...

Despite being the most spoken language in Pakistan, Punjabi lacks official status, while Urdu and English dominate the legal ...

This gorgeous staging of Brian Friel’s play has a cast that pulls you fully into the struggles their characters are going ...

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

As the world reels from US President Donald Trump's tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium ...

As the world reels from US President Donald Trump's tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: ...

In doing so, the administration cited a 19th century lawsuit that denied U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. The case is called Elk v. Wilkins. The president’s executive order has been blocked ...

What fun it is to study American politics these days! We go back to the first five years of the Nineteenth Century, with the impeachments of John Pickering, Samuel Chase, and the case of Marbury v.