A tiny mahogany slipcase of microscope slides on display at the Yale University Art Gallery raises issues of conquest, colonialism, and empire. The slipcase, created in the workshop of a Dutch diamond ...

America is trying to come to terms with its British and European colonial origins and Native American conquest, as well as African slavery. Some cities, including Evanston, have even begun reparation ...

European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah left his homeland—the island of Zanzibar—during the revolution and upheaval that followed the end of colonial rule on the island. For nearly forty years, his novels ...

ROME—The Vatican apologized for the Catholic Church’s historical role in justifying colonialism by European powers in other parts of the world and criticized pronouncements by past popes that ...

The Vatican has formally rejected the Catholic Church’s “Doctrine of Discovery,” used to justify European colonialism in Africa and the Americas, which dates from “papal bulls” issued in the 1450s. In ...

2 political scientists at Princeton help revive debate on how European liberals of centuries past viewed colonialism and imperialism It is one of the most troubling puzzles in the history of political ...

US president says there is ‘no going back’ on goal of controlling Arctic territory as Emmanuel Macron leads European resistance ...

On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world — surrounded the remote community of Tabaco.

There is not a day that goes by without breaking news on escalating tensions in the South China Sea, as regional powers like Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia increasingly contest China’s efforts ...

On May 23, the “Unfinished Conversation Series” exhibit opened in the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. The exhibition, which will remain on display until Dec. 12, uses ...