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

SAVANNAH, Ga. ― U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff won’t know his midterm election opponent for another 10 months, but he’s clear about who he is running against in November 2026: President ...

For the first time since detainees began arriving at Florida’s makeshift immigrant detention center in the Everglades this month, the DeSantis administration on Saturday gave the outside ...

France has announced a sweeping agreement granting more autonomy to the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

Colonizing Indigenous people—and exploiting their land and resources—has a long and brutal history.

July 7, 1742. Spanish forces with 5,000 men stormed St. Simons Island, aiming to crush Georgia’s British colony. Instead, they met James Oglethorpe and far fewer men in a marsh that would earn its ...

The southern, gently sloping shores give way to the north to salt flats, which cover over 20% of Sint Maarten's territory. North of Great Salt Pond, low hills rise, stretching from the south to the ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a genealogical archivist says.

Some of the World's Disputed Territories Across the globe, territorial disputes range from local skirmishes to major standoffs marked by dashed lines on maps and deep-rooted claims of sovereignty.

Surprisingly, with French failures in Saint-Domingue and the possibility of war in Europe (the Napoleonic Wars would begin in May 1803), Napoleon abandoned his imperial ambitions in North America.