President Biden warned America that an oligarchy is forming in Washington DC and that it threatens our republic. Turns out, ...

Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...

Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA), have long believed that the ancient city, Fregellae, was once ...

With Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on Monday, we contemplate the impact his administration could have on our democracy. Historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Timothy Snyder have drawn from ...

This is a Short History of the Roman Republic. Written by Kate Simants. With thanks to Dr. David Gwynn, Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway University.

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading troops across the border back into Italy would be declared a public enemy. It was, quite simply, an act of war.

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul. In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings.

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...