Mélanie Lamotte, assistant professor of history at Duke University, speaks about French empire. On Monday evening, students, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most original homes in the French Colonial style are quite old, as France's official presence in the U.S. began in the mid-1600s ...

(Missourinet)– After about two decades in the making, St. Genevieve in southeast Missouri has officially become the state’s first-ever National Historical Park. The town – dating back to the early ...

Owen White is a historian of imperialism and colonialism with a particular interest in modern France and its empire. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule. On May 7, Vietnam jubilantly celebrated the 70th ...