The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the timeless beauty of Tuscany's medieval towns with this captivating drone footage. Soar above Siena's historic piazzas, Monteriggioni's well-preserved fortress ...

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Before unification, they followed each other in the Italian peninsula numerous states and, consequently, too numerous capital ...

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula home. They built a culture that lasted for nearly 800 years, but it was no ...

Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano, erupted on June 2, causing tourists to seek safety. Several videos online have shown people fleeing as smoke and ash billowed from the side of the ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His ...

There’s real pride in that — Italy was only united as a country in 1861, before that it was a series of city states. The idea of knowing who you are is disappearing today. If you know who you ...

Italy wants to help you discover your roots—and meet distant relatives. This writer traced her roots back to a small Calabrian village and found 100 living relatives.

The Want of Military Maps. Share full article. Oct. 29, 1861. ... See the article in its original context from October 29, 1861, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Benito Mussolini loves maps. But when his eye leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for ...