As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.

The U.S. embassy’s annual celebration, held June 30, commemorated the 41st anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

From the hills of the Czech Republic’s Moravia region, archaeologists discovered a rare bronze wrist purse worn by a Roman ...

Discover how Rome transitioned from a Republic to an Empire in this detailed exploration of its history from 27 BC to 14 AD. Learn about the rise of Augustus, the transformation of Roman politics, and ...

However, although it only became an empire in an administrative sense in 27 BCE, Rome already controlled a vast empire before that. In the basic sense of “ a group of countries ruled by a single ...

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.

It is to reveal the stakes of what is happening in the US today. Tom Holland once remarked in his book about the final years of the Roman republic, Rubicon, that Rome was “the first and – until ...

Lucius Tarquinius was a Roman of Corinthian lineage settled in Etruria. He is believed to have been a descendant of Tarquinius Priscus and the prophetess Tanaquil, who ruled between approximately 616 ...

"I am honored to serve as Honorary Consul to the Republic of San Marino in Florida. Florida is the 3rd most populous state within the United States and is a state with growing importance.

Rank did not matter: 90 senators, 15 of them who had been consuls (the Republic’s CEOs), were targeted. Sulla declared he did everything to protect the Roman Republic and expand its glory.