If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...

Many modern countries were not formed naturally but created through wars, colonial agreements, political deals, and imperial ...

General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial administrator of Senegal, was the first French official to recognize the riches and resources of West Africa, making the region known as a ...

Other than the British Empire, there were several nations and empires in the world's history that colonised other regions for prolonged periods of time. Some of these nations even fought with each ...

Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for The Telegraph. A Cambridge-educated historian and author, he often appears on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and co-hosts The Daily T podcast. Tim ...

Six centuries of history, from the first colonizations to today's colonial legacy : Caribbean, Americas, Africa, Pacific, Asia... Nourished by the most recent contributions of historiography, this ...

The legacy of Germany's colonial empire has long been ignored by the government and public at large. But amid the global anti-racist movement, a reckoning is due over how to handle leftover colonial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an ...