A Demonstration in front of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany on July 20, 2021. Nestled alongside the River Spree south of Berlin’s city center, Treptower Park is home to green lawns, riverboat ...

William & Mary’s graduate program in U.S. colonial history is the best in the country, according to rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report. In the report on the nation’s best graduate ...

In the capital Lisbon, 2 public projects represent different views of the country's colonial past. One is a memorial to victims of slavery and the other is a museum celebrating Portuguese explorers.

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid-19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded approximately 11 times, and its population has surged 135 times. It became the ...

Museums and colonialism are inextricably linked. Julio Etchart explores how projects in colonizing countries are wrestling with how to address that past. Performance by curator KV at the 'No Place ...

You may expect remnants of New York City’s colonial history to be hard to find or cordoned off behind barriers and glass, but there are many vestiges of the past integrated into today’s modern ...

One morning on Marseille’s main shopping street, Rue Saint-Ferréol, a group of around 20 people gathered around the artist Mariam Benbakkar for what she calls a "colonial downtown walk". This ...