In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

The German Peasants' War - which happened exactly 500 years ago - saw peasants across Germany, Switzerland and Austria rise up against oppressive lords in a bid for freedom and social reform.

APeasant Woman digging (summer 1885) is among the least known Van Gogh paintings in UK public collections. An important early ...

This may be the year the firewall collapses. The AfD is now polling at about 22 percent nationally and seems destined for a ...

Every year on February 23, Russia and some CIS countries celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day, a holiday dedicated to all ...

These stormed manor houses, castles, villages and towns. This rebellion, the largest on European soil until the French Revolution, is known as the German Peasant War. It was a radical mass movement ...

The current wave of anti-elitism, and anti-urbanism we’re seeing from authoritarian leaders and their followers may seem to have erupted out of nowhere. But New Yorker writer, Adam Gopnik argues what ...

In Smolensk, residents were obliged to fear both the occupying Nazis and what would happen if Soviet rule returned.

Revered as "father of the nation" and the icon of Namibia's liberation struggle, Sam Nujoma lived up to these expectations in ...

Jacob Mikanowski is a historian, author, and journalist who takes us through Czechoslovakia's uniquely complex but, at the ...

The ballet makes it possible to soak in some high culture and still feel energized once the show ends. The plot is the type of bad movie that friends love to bond over, but the production quality is ...