Discover the impact of political assassinations on history, from Julius Caesar to Malcolm X, and how their deaths shaped nations and movements.

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c ... On March15, 44 BC, the Ides of March, Caesar was assassinated in the Senate. Although his own rule was unremarkable, his victory in the ...

Several theatres in the US have received threats and complaints after a show in New York depicted the assassination of a Julius Caesar made to look like President Donald Trump. Messages wished ...

It is rare to read a book about Cicero that likens its hero to a demagogue. Rome’s prosecutor of conspiracy and corruption in ...

Augustus was very aware of the bloody fate of his uncle, Julius Caesar, when senators suspected ... northern Spain and much of central Europe. By his death, the empire was an enormous marketplace ...

Caesar’s grand plans were cut short by his assassination on the Ides of March in 44 BCE, but his legacy endured in the Roman Empire of Augustus. Gaius Julius Caesar was born into the gens Julia, ...

Julius Caesar's popularity soars when he returns ... of Caesar's ambition and plans for the city and begin plotting his assassination in the name of preserving the Republic of Rome.

But his assassination does not help matters ... the first Broadway staging of Julius Caesar in over 50 years. It will mark his first New York stage appearance since 1988, when he played a lead ...