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 ...

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The year 2020 was filled with polarizing events — a pandemic, fervent protests from Belarus to Hong Kong to Venezuela, Black Lives Matter, the U.S. elections, conflict in the Central African Republic ...

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colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

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.

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 ...

Alien floras in regions that were once occupied by the same European power are, on average, more similar to each other compared to outside regions and this similarity increases with the length of time ...