Political

Harold Macmillan, the Conservative prime minister of the day, may have declared that Britain had

The sun was already setting on Britain’s empire and its status as a major player

The full story of the 1953 coup d’etat in Iran has yet to be told

One of the world’s most enduring and disastrous conflicts is that between Israel (consistently supported

If ever there was a blot on the USA’s political escutcheon, it was paranoid anti-communist

The vast subcontinent of India was the prized jewel in Britain’s imperial crown, but controlling

Any head of state convicted of treason and sentenced to death by firing squad is

When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived home from Munich at the end of September

The Weimar Republic that followed German defeat in World War I proved a switchback of

Over the centuries, the Spanish monarchy learned very well how to use religion as an

Near Casper in Wyoming, a strangely shaped butte soars out of the prairie. It is

Best known today for being the precursor body to the United Nations, the ill-fated League

By the time the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified more than half

For over a decade the Dreyfus Affair dominated French political and cultural life. It began