How classical music and a pre-recorded Swan Lake became the symbol of political crisis, censorship, and leadership change in the USSR

Firsthand accounts from Greeks who lived through the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe, collected by the Center for Asia Minor Studies

France's last guillotine execution, its dark path from the Revolution, and Victor Hugo's fight against the death penalty

On this day, September 9th 2015, Queen Elizabeth II overtook Queen Victoria as the longest reigning monarch in British history, a milestone that cemented her legitimacy in the public eye. Endurance alone, it turns out, can be a source of legitimacy

Five decades after Mao Zedong’s death, China remains caught between the legacy of his revolutionary era and the economic transformation that turned the country into a global power

Mother of seven, spy against the Reich — Lela Karagianni, executed by the Nazis on September 8, 1944, weeks before Athens was freed.

She married Prince George of Greece knowing he was involved with his own uncle, and built a life, and a career in psychoanalysis, around that truth

The "Butcher of Bosnia," General Ratko Mladic, who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes, orchestrated the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II

From the little black dress and women’s trousers to Chanel No. 5 and the 2.55 bag, Coco Chanel introduced ideas that reshaped how women dressed and many remain wardrobe staples today

On Aug. 17, 1951, 16-year-old Vanda Pierri was killed while swimming off Mon Repos, in a rare shark attack that would remain etched in Corfu’s collective memory for decades

Twenty years ago, a Helios Airways Boeing 737 vanished from radio contact, triggering a tense military response before crashing near Athens—killing all 121 on board. The investigation uncovered a chain of human errors and systemic failures

In August 1996, two young Greek Cypriots were murdered in the UN buffer zone by Turkish paramilitaries. The killings, caught on camera, exposed the violence of Cyprus’s division and the shadowy network of the far-right Grey Wolves