But from the French Revolution onwards, a piecemeal emancipation allowed wealthy Jewish merchants, industrialists and bankers ...

Ahead of four local events this week, Ken Burns talks about his star-studded, 12-hour documentary series coming later this ...

April 2025 marks 250 years since the momentous events at Lexington and Concord—the opening salvos of the American Revolution.

Opera buffa and opera seria are the tradition’s comic and tragic masks. Manitoba Opera’s 2025-26 season wears both — with ...

Cronenberg then did a stint as a clerk at Toronto’s Sam the Record Man music emporium for a bit, before departing for France in 1971. There, with a 16 mm camera purchased with a Canada Council grant, ...

Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Raisa Tolchinsky types poetry on demand, there’s a bluegrass ...

"This country is full of zeal and fire," writes Napoleon, now a first lieutenant and a proponent of the French Revolution ... Gianni Dagli Orti / The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY As combat ...

From Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu to Liverpool's Anfield, the best stadiums in world football right now have been ranked ...

Two works—a new film, The Shrouds, and a career-spanning monograph by the film critic Violet Lucca—present a more sanguine ...

An exhibit at the Centre Pompidou displays the creativity of Black artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...