When we think about the visuals that represent America, we might picture the Statue of Liberty, Bald Eagles, the Great Seal ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling state-level crime that saw up to 1.2 million Armenians killed in 1915 and 1916. In ...

Some things were truly built to last. Some two millennia ago, Romans constructed amphitheaters across their vast empire, as far north as modern-day Scotland and as far south as what’s now Libya.

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed that not supporting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) would turn the U.S. into an “aging, slowly dying former empire." ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy. German popes elected from the Empire included Gregory in 996 and Damasus II in 1048.

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

Science Ancient rocks tie Roman Empire’s collapse to a mini ice age ‘This climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.’ By Andrew Paul Published Apr 11, 2025 3:28 PM EDT ...

Mr. Bannon, influenced by Edward Gibbon’s 18th-century opus, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” came to a different conclusion.

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The Eastern Roman emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, severely miscalculated the young Turk and his providential appetite for greatness, and denied Mehmed tribute. Mara’s life also took a strange ...

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...