Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a history buff at heart. In a recent New Yorker profile, the tech mogul revealed that his fascination with the ancient Roman emperor Augustus even figured into his 2012 ...

Donald Trump’s destruction of America’s 249-year-old constitutional republic and civic culture follows a historically familiar pattern that includes two especially striking precedents — one ancient, ...

Nearly 150 high school students were excused from a statewide exam after they were taught about the wrong Caesar in history class. Teachers in at least eight schools in Queensland, Australia, had been ...

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