SlaveVoyages, a tool for data on history's largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project's upcoming move ...

Paris is often considered the capital of the Enlightenment, with all eyes throughout Europe looking to the French city for philosophy, taste, and culture. But how did trade, travel ... exchange on ...

Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing chairs with fake royal pedigrees, authorities say. The distinct taste of licorice helped give him away. By Ephrat Livni ...