The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Soon general panic set in. “The whole army was in the most appalling disorder ... their commander was the greatest soldier since Julius Caesar. The first stages of the Waterloo campaign ...

Conquerors like Genghis Khan and Julius Caesar, whom Truman had read about ... Stripes over the American sector of Berlin. Speaking without notes, Truman told the crowd of American soldiers ...

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

He chose Memphis over several other schools, prioritizing playing for his hometown team. Julius Thedford could have continued his college basketball career at Texas A&M. The 6-foot-4, 19-year-old ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 years of civil war.

The government made clear that it expected — and might encourage — the economic frostiness to spill over to attitudes toward the United States in general. The tariffs would “inevitably ...

The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist. By Alissa Wilkinson This deliciously nasty reworking of the ...