In the 1950s, the US began test-flying a new spy plane, the Lockheed U-2. A Sky HISTORY series explores how this led to UFO ...

COMMENTARY: The first ecumenical council made a landmark profession of Christ’s divine identity that continues to anchor the ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

I teach History of International Relations since 1648 to undergraduate students at the Department of Political Science and ...

His trademark humility was genuine, and did much to strip away perceptions of an aloof “Holy Roman Empire”. He immediately discarded the showy red velvet slippers and ornate vestments ...

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy. German popes elected from the Empire included Gregory in 996 and Damasus II in 1048. England ...

Aerial View of Ancient Roman Ruins in Rome. Scientists have found that the 'Little Ice Age' may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire almost 572 years ago. For a long time, it had been ...

also known as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire. Beginning in the 20th century, similar titles were frequently used to describe the United States. If nothing else, empires may rise and fall ...

The Thirty Years’ War and the Birth of the Modern State (1618–1648): The Thirty Years’ War was ... a war that erupted after the collapse of the Catholic-Protestant balance in the Holy Roman Empire.

The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbutte, Maria Theresa was immediately acknowledged as the rightful heir of the Holy ...

But the Eastern Roman Empire lived on for another millennium – until Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. A few fringe scholars even argue that Rome fell in 1806 with the demise of the Holy Roman ...