The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?

On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.

David Armitage's book tracks changing definitions of civil war, from Ancient Rome to the American Civil War to now.

The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should.

Mary Beard writes the people’s history of Rome in her new book “SPQR.”