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 ...

The murder of George Floyd by a policeman and the ensuing protests against racism and police brutality in the United States have ignited similar protests in Europe. Large crowds, especially in the ...

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 ...

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colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

Thailand avoided colonization not because it was too strong to conquer, but because it played the European powers against each other at exactly the right time. Surrounded by British and French ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Berlin, November 14, 2024) – European governments have yet to reckon with and meaningfully address the ongoing impacts of their colonial legacies affecting people of African descent on the African ...

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.

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 ...