There are, I can now admit as I look back to that summer morning, many more reasons not to run across Vermont than to do it.

Sheila S. Coronel is Toni Stabile Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University and Co-Founder of ...

From India’s original inhabitants, the Mauryans, to the British, who came as traders but stayed to reshape its history, this is a land that absorbed everyone, even those who tried to dominate it. From ...

Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...

Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...

Known as one of the greatest Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was a highly charismatic character. His life was full of ...

For centuries, even before the British arrived in India, Delhi was the centre of power in the region. From the Tomars, who ...

With streets apparently paved with gold, fabulous riches and dazzling wealth, in a golden age of exploration there were few cities on earth to ...

has taken a hard-line stance on the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional backlash against what many see as the legacy of an oppressive colonial empire.

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British ... codified colonial interests out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire.