As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated ...

Except for the Battle of Borodino, which Napoleon had fought in Russia in his disastrous 1812 campaign, this was the costliest single day of the 23 years of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

"Love him or hate him, Napoleon is a figure probably unrivaled in modern history." Today Jonathon Riley, a British General ...

The artwork, titled Echoes, is inspired by the acoustic sound mirrors that lined England's south coast as the Second World ...

1920 assemblage, Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Age), was meant to symbolize the empty spirit of the post-World War I era. Edward Steichen, Philadelphia Museum of Art In the years before World ...