Spain and Portugal came to dominate South and Central America with Britain and France fighting for ... its competitors in lucrative colonial trade. Denmark could be considered the most successful ...

Much attention has been paid to France’s relationship with New Caledonia in recent months, but France has also been compelled ...

Instead, I’ve been poring over Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. The 1996 volume looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and yet that distant history rhymes with ...

For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs ...

The "Little France of America" offers a French cultural and aesthetic experience without the crowds of New Orleans!

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

Germany today is one of the most admired countries in Europe and around the world. Nevertheless, it isn’t far from anyone’s ...

The two Founding Fathers and the seamstress of the American flag all once worshipped on the now centuries-old wooden pews of ...

A pair of recent Aqueduct graded share plenty of common ancestors, including a French-bred mare that raced over 260 times in ...

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to director Mati Diop about her new documentary, "Dahomey." The film follows the return of royal treasures plundered by French forces.

Vivian, Soka University of America ... in these colonies. And their descendants, known as “békés,” became the dominant force of a deeply inegalitarian society. Despite France’s abolition ...