An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

It’s exciting to find remnants of Europe’s Old World that somehow missed the 21st-century bus. But much of what we see touted as the “real thing” is actually a cultural cliché kept alive for the ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

Getting close to one of the big icons of Western civilization — the Acropolis, the palace of Versailles, the Colosseum — can be the spine-tingling high point of a European trip. But don’t paper over ...

For thousands of years, the great civilisations and nations of Europe have had to endure regular attacks from a lethal foe: Mother Nature. From earthquakes and eruptions to fire and floods, the ...

The Department of International History is delighted to host a group of world-leading historians of Europe to explore modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the ...

Caught between Trump’s shifting Ukraine calculus & China’s industrial surge, Europe confronts hard reckoning over its fading competitiveness, political resolve ...

A rich cultural legacy reinforces a commitment to solidarity. [ opinion ] In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of Persian monarchy with an opulent party for hundreds of ...