Jimmy Chen

Juneteenth, the holiday marking the liberation of slaves in Texas during the American Civil War, came more than two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

From its beginnings as a palatial retreat for a Roman emperor, Split is now a popular tourist destination on the Adriatic coast.

The history of Georgia is the tale of both resistance and accommodation with powerful empires in the region over thousands of years.

For 400 years, between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE, China was divided between rival dynasties that struggled to reunify the empire.

Napoleon Bonaparte rose from humble beginnings to become a successful general and emperor of the French, but his fall and exile were equally dramatic.

During the first half of the 16th century, Emperor Charles V inherited a large empire and spent his life trying to hold on to it.

While the Qin Dynasty was the first to unify China and establish an empire, the Han Dynasty consolidated the Qin imperial legacy and lasted four centuries.

The Battle of Red Cliffs is one of the most famous battles in Chinese history, but most accounts tend to mix fact and fiction.