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 ...

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 ...

Saim Saeed is a Brussels-based journalist and former POLITICO editor. European officials are keen to assert that the sum of their institutions is more than their parts. The EU, in their view, isn’t ...

The Saint Louis University Department of History offers more than half a dozen graduate concentrations. Students pursuing a Master of Arts in History can focus their studies in early modern, medieval ...

Alan Cooper receives funding from the Australian Research Council, National Geographic Society and the Australian Genome Research Facility. Wolfgang Haak receives funding from the Australian Research ...

InvestigationBuilding a common home has haunted Europe for centuries. Between rapprochements and conflicts, history has offered its citizens a set of widely shared values and ideas, but is it based on ...

There is a well-worn story that is told in one form or another in all European history textbooks. In 824, ten years after the death of Charlemagne, Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon, hailed a new Christian ...

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 ...