On a mid-November day in 1840, the Argentine intellectual Domingo Faustino Sarmiento found himself in the Zonda Valley, on the…

In the summer of A.D. 95, the Greek orator Dio Chrysostom sailed across the Black Sea’s brine-salt waves to the…

It was in the summer of 1845 that Thomas Eyre Poole parted from his family, picked his way through the…

TORONTO — This week, Ukraine’s President, Viktor Yushchenko, will travel to Israel — a nation for whom the term “genocide”…