A French chef, he explains, would become necessary as a status symbol for many aristocrats of the 19th and 20th Century "I think it goes back to the image that France continues to have today as ...

At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

Pope Leo XIV and I are fourth cousins. I am grateful to Jari Honora of the Historic New Orleans Collection for bringing Pope ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

Though Memorial Day traces its origins to the years following the American Civil War in the mid-19th century, it did not ...

professor at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris) and the Paris School of Economics In the 19th century, France imposed a massive debt on its former colony to ...

The first time Haughey entered it, in the 1990s, he found ash on the ground from the last people to use it a century earlier ... having fled France when the monarchy fell, decided to walk around ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...