Uh oh, Rick Santorum's trying to horn in on Newt Gingrich's history professor action. And he's off to a good start -- he approaches Newt's accuracy level of zero in this actual audio clip.
Posted 02.14.2012
Nothing says "I love you... and I'm an intellectual, I swear!!!" like a thoughtful and stimulating book. Valentine's Day is stressful enough as it is,...
Alan Singer | Posted 03.06.2012
Life sized bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass stand at the entrances to the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) greeting visitor...
Posted 01.03.2012
Marilyn Holsing's exhibition 'Further Tales of Young Marie Antoinette' juxtaposes the endless expanse of the imagination when a little girl is playing...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 03.02.2012
Though 2011 was a precedent-setting and history-making year for protest in many, it was also one that conformed at many points to familiar patterns.
Lyric Hughes Hale | Posted 02.11.2012
The reasons that there aren't any trophy heads after the financial crisis are plentiful: there are legal obstacles, practical obstacles, a lack of personnel, and general fuzziness about how economic crimes are defined.
Posted 12.06.2011
Powdered wig-wearing patriots bounce on an inflatable mountaintop. Mermaids twirl while suspended in thin air. A battle breaks out on top of a giant, ...
Posted 09.13.2011
Paris was the scene of colorful military parades and spectacular air displays as proud citizens took to the Champs-Élysées avenue to celebrate Basti...
The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 06.27.2011
The imminent Royal Wedding between England's Prince William and commoner Kate Middleton has met with a wide array of artwork created in response. The ...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.04.2011
The Sky Over the Louvre, by esteemed cartoonist Bernar Yslaire, demonstrates understanding -- even mastery -- of a fascinating historical episode, and is a powerful aesthetic experience.
Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.28.2011
With all the hype about greening your life, one of the most basic things you can do happens to be the most important -- going for a more plant-based diet.
Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011
It isn't clear what Zenawi means in his repeated use of the word "contract" to describe the relationship between the people of Ethiopia and his party.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.25.2011
Two centuries ago, news of revolution -- and revolution itself -- reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic at astonishing speed. The social media of the day? Word-of-mouth information, rumor, and opinion.
Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
France24 | Posted 05.25.2011
AFP - He was one of France's most adored kings, a monarch known as "le bon roi Henri" (good king Henri), who promoted religious tolerance, was a hit w...
AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — A 400-year-old skull that researchers say belonged to celebrated French King Henri IV was donated Thursday to a descendant – the p...
Maite Gomez-Rejon | Posted 05.25.2011
Though no stranger to French cuisine when he set sail, Thomas Jefferson's years spent in France completely revolutionized his culinary thinking and opened up a new gastronomic world for him.
Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011
Walk down any street in the old part of Paris behind the Louvre, and you see large numbers of unwashed, evil-looking ruffians just waiting for an excuse to riot, loot and burn.
The New York Review of Books | David Brion Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
David Brion Davis The New York Review of Books Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell (Pantheon) The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1...
Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011
Tomorrow is Bastille Day, celebrating the start of the French Revolution. The French Revolution didn't happen because it seemed like a fun idea with ...
Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011
Louis XVI's final testament written shortly before his execution has been recovered more than two centuries after it disappeared during the French Rev...
Scott Bateman | Posted 04.24.2012