When Phillip Pyle II reimagines an 1863 regimental flag painted by David Bustill Bowser, he’s not just updating history. He’s interrogating the conditional nature of Black freedom in America.

Black Emperor for 2025 Edition. Steve Strongman, TOBi and Donovan Woods will also perform at this year's festival. BY Karlie Rogers Published Jun 19, 2025.

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, ... Philip II, would later disinter his remains and rebury them in El Escorial near Madrid). Charles was no ...

Fragments of the ancient Roman fresco show a floral pattern. (Image credit: MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)) The art served to demonstrate the wealth and taste of the villa's inhabitants.

On June 21, 1948, hundreds of men and women from the Caribbean disembarked from a ship called the Emperor Windrush at Tilbury docks. Many still believe that this event marked the first arrival of a ...

The Thirty Years War, a series of wars fought by various European nations for various reasons, ignited in 1618 over an attempt by the king of Bohemia (the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II) to ...