The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had attempted to resolve a previous era of religious wars and there began the development of ...

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the ...

The Nobel Peace Prize has often been a prisoner of geostrategic interests and served as a conduit for legitimacy for men and women with blood on their hands. This calls for a rechristening ...

Queen Elizabeth II met 13 American presidents. A new book, "The Queen and Her Presidents," looks at how she skillfully navigated those relationships.

Matthew Becklo discusses his new book and its themes, from polarization and the present spiritual crisis to 'heaven-earth ...

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday that it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship ...

This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of ...