While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France ... for atrocities committed by French troops on the battlefield and across an overseas colonial empire extending from the Americas to Africa.