Here, seven historians tell Rolling Stone how monarchs, elites, and dictators of the past anticipated someone like Trump, the ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Volodymyr Zelensky has offered to swap land seized in Russia's Kursk region for the return of occupied Ukrainian territory as part of potential peace negotiations led by Donald Trump. "We will swap ...

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so ...

The stories aren’t road maps to the future ... the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.

For a Christian holiday, Easter has surprisingly pagan roots. The symbol of the Paschal ... brought here by European settlers. In the 1760s, Captain Jonathan Carver visited the Naudowessie ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down ...

James Trimble's European word translator generates maps of Europe showing the word of your choice in the most common ...

Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

A new European Wetland Map shows Europe’s peatlands, floodplains and coastal wetlands more comprehensively than ever before in one map. Compiled from about 200 data sources, this map informs policy ...