The Meiji Restoration (1868) led to the forced separation of Shinto and Buddhism, scattering priceless sacred Japanese ...

Pop, Korea’s long history reveals how a distinctive cultural identity survived, adapted, and eventually reached audiences ...

Dr Anna Stein is a cultural historian and heritage specialist whose work explores museums, Korean history, cultural identity, ...

The “women and children first” rule is known as the Birkenhead Drill, named after the 1852 HMS Birkenhead shipwreck.

Portrait of Peter I, attributed to Jean-Marc Nattier, 1717. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Absolute monarchy is a form of political government in which the monarch has ...

The Red Tails, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, fought hard in the European air war, escorting American bombers and ...

In the 1930s, the Northern European country of Finland found itself in an unappealing geographic and political situation – ...

While hostile architecture is often seen as a modern phenomenon, it has a foundational history that stretches back millennia.

Algiers wanted a debt repaid, and France was looking for an excuse to invade. A personal insult served as that pretext.

From the scorching deserts of North Africa to the forests of France and the snowy fields of Russia, what were the most ...

Sometimes in history, the tables are turned. In Egypt and Syria, the Mamluk Sultanate, or slave soldiers, rose from being ...

Two and a half millennia ago, Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha, sat under a Bo tree ( Ficus religiosa) and ...