Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The ...

What is art without truth—and truth may be found in the tantalizing little details. Three wonderfully truthful artists ...

April 1843: a small flotilla of ships are cruising along the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, which has seceded from Mexico.

The Ottoman Empire expanded across three continents, conquering major territories in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Europe. So why didn’t they ever conquer Italy? In this video, we ...

The publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar,’ Arthur Koestler once declared. For some reason this put-down has never ...

The great reformer and warrior pope who enforced the reforms of the Council of Trent and rallied Christian Europe to victory at the Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman fleet. Best known for ...

He also called together the Christian League to confront the incursions of the Ottoman Empire into Europe, culminating in the decisive victory of the Battle of Lepanto. Over the next several ...

Saint Pius V (pontificate between 1566 and 1572, the pope of the battle of Lepanto and the devotion of the Rosary) died at the Lateran Palace, was first buried at St. Peter's and then, in 1588 ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, the last great sea battle between galleys, in which the Catholic fleet of the Holy League of principally Venice, Spain, the Papal ...

Aside from the well-known Saetas and Serie Negra series, a must-see — being shown for the first time in public — is El Cristo de Lepanto, Mr. Zóbel’s 1964 painted dialogue with Juan Luna’s 1884 ...

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