An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.

Landing Friday with the subtlety of a scud missile, the new National Security Strategy of the United States of America has quite a lot to say about Europe and us Europeans. And it ain't pretty, writes Sean Whelan.

The strategy calls for asserting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and 'cultivating resistance' in Europe.

An extended view, from 1 AD to 2000 AD. If you click it will get bigger and easier to read. Euratlas The most recent millennium of European political history was wrought with war and conquest. Borders shifted; empires rose and fell. In the video above we ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.

It’s exciting to find remnants of Europe’s Old World that somehow missed the 21st-century bus. But much of what we see touted as the “real thing” is actually a cultural cliché kept alive for the tourists. To really feel the touch of history, when ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees the light of day. And what stories they are too -complex ...