Colin Marshall

Without wanting to make too broad a generalization, it's safe to say that Saturday Evening Post readers probably didn't understand much about what was going on in San Francisco during the Summer of Love.

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt.

Whether we're religious or not, we can all agree that the Bible isn't just a book. In fact, it's at least 66 of them, 39 Old Testament and 27 in the New, and that's just in the Protestant tradition.

When television mogul Ted Turner died earlier this month, it gave cinephiles occasion to remember his brief but high-profile foray into colorization.

Christianity has long been closely identified with Western civilization. The association is especially strong, in modern times, with the United

The young George Washington may never have hacked up his father's cherry tree and refused to lie about it, but his life nevertheless offers plenty of deeds both virtuous and adequately documented.

Even for Americans, keeping up with the geopolitical entanglements of the United States has never been an easy task.

Robert Johnson died at just 27 years old, some say as a consequence of selling his soul to the devil at a crossroads . But before his time came, he

Officially, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Demolition would take more than four years, and a few sections remain for memorial purposes, but

Since it was first built as a Mycenaean fortress in the thirteenth century BC, what we now know as the Acropolis has been used to worship not just