The United States didn’t simply poof into existence, fully formed, from the brains of the Founders. History guided them as they crafted the American system of governance. This included the European ...

Remus got into fatal trouble for deriding his brother’s first effort to build a wall around Rome: Livy says he fell when he tried to jump over it; others say Romulus killed him. Ever since, border ...

“The history of Rome,” writes US archaeologist Kim Bowes, “is peopled by the rich.” Cicero, Livy, and Tacitus chronicled the lives of consuls and emperors, but the classical world’s most celebrated ...