Planned as a holy war to retake Jerusalem, the Fourth Crusade ended in disaster when crusaders sacked Christian ...

Publisher description: Christopher Tyerman examines the many military operations between 1095 and 1500 that fall under the heading of Wars of the Cross. Beginning with Pope Urban II's dramatic appeal ...

Pope Francis’s lack of regard for just-war theology is not the first time that this has occurred in Catholic history (“Pope Francis Waves a White Flag at Vladimir Putin” by George Weigel, op-ed, March ...

This is a guest column by Joseph Loconte, associate professor of history at The King’s College in New York City. He is the author of God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the ...

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of Franks, Germanic peoples and Middle Ages continues with a video on Charlemagne's Saxon massacre. In 782, the Massacre of ...

Across the United States, many celebrate Columbus Day, a controversial federal holiday observed every year on the second ...