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Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.
Will Donald Trump’s Washington arch celebrate the American republic’s independence from Britain in 1776, or its subsequent ascendance as an imperial power in its own right?
The National Army Museum in London has recently identified the likely subject of a portrait of a black soldier in its collection as Private Thomas James.
The stolen jewellery includes well-known pieces that are easily recognisable, which will make it difficult to sell on the black market.
Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre’s security problems, rather than on the jewels themselves.
There was a reason Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were hierarchal societies sustained by enslaved labor.
A heist has taken place at the Louvre. It’s just the latest in a long line of cunning art heists.
Historian Julia Gaffield discusses her recent biography on Haiti’s first leader, whose life she argues was unfairly tarnished by biased verdicts of history.
Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
Ridley Scott’s film is not intended to paint a romanticised image of Napoleon, but rather immerse the viewer in the dilemmas and complexities of power.
Napoleon has unleashed a torrent of objections to the film’s historical errors. More important for historians should be whether creative works pass the test of authenticity.
Joaquin Phoenix is a great Napoleon. How have other films treated France’s most famous man?
A shorn haircut known as the coiffure à la victime, paid tribute to guillotined prisoners whose hair was loped off before execution.
A historian explains what the relationship between one of the most famous couples in history was really like.
Here are the truths behind some of the major scenes from Ridley Scott’s new Napoleon biopic.
A military strategist breaks down how a smaller Ukrainian army has successfully taken back swaths of land from the Russians in the country’s northeast.
Displays of captured Russian weaponry aim to show the strength of the foe Ukrainians face, but also that victory is possible.
Commemorations have slowly become more muted over the years due to the racist and misogynistic aspects of his rule
Britain’s preoccupation with the canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade.
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