Rome became an empire because Augustus understood power better than anyone before him. Instead of openly declaring dictatorship, he acted humble, returned authority “to the Senate,” then accepted it ...

The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman ...

Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman ...

I argued that the Constitution Review Committee rsquo;s report is predicated on a technocratic fantasy mdash;the belief that democratic deficits can be cured by transferring power from accountable ins ...

In the late 1890s, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan made a compelling argument for the United States’ possession of Hawaii. Those interested in the annexation of Greenland might take note.

The life of Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70–27 BCE) shows what happened to politicians in ancient Rome who fell out of favor ...

The value of education is unquantifiable. Anti-apartheid activist and first black President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela (now late), famously called education "the most powerful ...

On the latest edition of Kentucky Newsmakers, WKYT’s Bill Bryant talks with University of the Cumberlands President Quenton ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

The headline in the Jan. 23, 1876, edition of the Rocky Mountain News was a calculated provocation: “Jeff Davis Elected President.” The column that followed, which purported to be a dispatch from “Nov ...

As the French Senate debates the assisted dying bill, Catholic bishops urge a rejection of the law, arguing that true ...

A nurse touches the hand of a patient in the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France, May 31, ...