On January 14, 1784, the Second Continental Congress ratified the decisive Treaty of Paris—the binding accord that ended the Revolutionary War, secured ...

Quote of the day by Victor Hugo, “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” As a leader of the Romantic movement, Hugo survived 19 years of political exile. He championed the ...

The first person to take both aerial and subterranean photographs, Nadar was a pioneer of both hot-air ballooning and ...

“Dawn to decadence,” Vidal concluded. The more trenchant observation – “America is the only nation in history which ...

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War is full of surprises. Sometimes the underdog triumphs against impossible odds, and other times, overwhelming force ...

A triple header of author talks will take place Jan. 13 with three local writers, Chip LoCoco, Vicki Salloum and Elisa ...

America has toppled governments or otherwise intervened in Latin America many times, and particularly so from the 1850s and, ...

Al-Shayyal argues that it was neither the French nor the British occupations that advanced translation significantly in Egypt ...

The quote of the day, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, defines courage not as having strength, but as continuing forward ...

Explore the hottest new restaurants in Des Moines, serving spicy chicken to sushi, brunch spots and comfort food.