It has become fashionable to compare the United States’ current disarray to that of ancient Rome. The parallels are easy to make — both are powerful empires, nominally operating by the rule of the ...

A collaboration between a talented graphic designer and two historians, this beautifully produced large-format book was originally published in French, but the English translation is fluent. The ...

Screen shot of an Illustration of a colony from a 6th century CE manuscript called the Codex Arcerianus, which is a copy of the earlier collected works that guided Roman land surveyors as they marked ...