Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

is set in Empire State Plaza in Albany, a much-maligned white elephant built during the governorship of Nelson Rockefeller. The edges of the picture are cluttered with emblems of man’s achievements -- ...

The role of the first lady takes on different forms throughout history: we retrace it through historical portraits, up to the ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

The unexplained appearance of a very patriotic item on an Australian street has led to an outpouring of support from ...

What about the courts and civil society? Trump’s attempt to repeal the 14th Amendment has been temporarily paused by a court ...

The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and ...

Jim Fisk was born in Pownal, Vermont. His father was a peddler. When Jim was eight years old his family moved to Brattleboro.

He even re-designed its curious emblem, based on an ancient symbol for ... Germany would carve a new empire for herself in eastern Europe, a greater Germany, rising to be a world power.