This exhibit explores representations of people and events connected with the Crimean War in the French and British satirical press. It focuses specifically on cartoons that appeared in two major 19th ...

Failing to remember history, President Biden appears condemned to repeat it. The original anti-Russian Western coalition was an unlikely one considering the extent to which their interests diverged in ...

In the decades following photography’s invention, portrait photographers were routinely judged on their ability to produce objective likenesses of their sitters. Many people believed that such a ...

During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later, ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Here's a widely held view of Russia's war: Russia had a more powerful army and expected a quick victory. It didn't think Western powers would intervene. Yet a poorly planned military ...