Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

Adam Hochschild’s “King Leopold’s Ghost” is the narrative (nonfiction) I’d turn to if I wanted to take in “the horror” of what happened in the Congo. I’d even prefer the list.

The Past as Prologue Although none of us were quick to grasp the full implications of that inaugural invocation of McKinley’s ghost ... over to Belgium’s King Leopold II, who soon killed ...

Travelling with anyone for long, even a ghost, tends to awaken us to their ... In May 1879, at the behest of Leopold II, the steamship Chinsura sailed from Mumbai to Zanzibar, carrying four ...

Adam Hochschild, who wrote the expose King Leopold’s Ghost on the violent exploitation of the Belgian Congo, records all this violence in his book, American Midnight. In doing so he also introduces us ...

Although none of us were quick to grasp the full implications of that inaugural invocation of McKinley’s ghost, Donald Trump was indeed ... turned the Congo over to Belgium’s King Leopold II, who soon ...

Located just outside the city proper, Bonaventure Cemetery deserves its reputation as one of the most beautiful final resting ...

The celebrated photojournalist picks six favourites. He will talk to Richard Ovenden about his life and work, and will be ...

The celebrated photojournalist picks six favourites. He will talk to Richard Ovenden about his life and work, and will be awarded this year's Bodley Medal, at the Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April.

the King County Council has approved legislation aimed at addressing “ghost buses,” or unplanned trip cancellations. This move is designed to boost transparency and ensure that commuters ...

Taylor Swift’s longtime friend, Jaime King, has broken her silence after being forced out of her Los Angeles pad for owing more than $42,000 in back rent. After her landlord locked her out of ...