Born enslaved, rejected by U.S. seminaries and ordained in Rome, Augustus Tolton became the first publicly recognized Black ...

The challenge when visiting Rome is deciding what to skip: there are so many churches, archaeological sites, piazzas and ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Rome became an empire because Augustus understood power better than anyone before him. Instead of openly declaring dictatorship, he acted humble, returned authority “to the Senate,” then accepted it ...

The life of Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70–27 BCE) shows what happened to politicians in ancient Rome who fell out of favor ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

After Julius Caesar’s death the Roman Senate declared him a god, a decision that transformed the political landscape. This episode reveals how the young Octavian adopted the title Divi Filius, “son of ...

STATE EXECUTIVE Office of Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus has been to Lowell so many times that City Manager Tom Golden may want to give the man his own parking spot. Augustus ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

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The Senate is readying for a vote on extending expiring Obamacare premium subsidies, but the proposal on the table is all but certain to fail. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., unveiled ...