When Rome's western throne collapsed in 476, the Roman Empire itself did not, it endured for nearly a thousand years more from its glittering capital on the Bosphorus. This is the story of Emperor ...

A fast visual walkthrough of the fall of Constantinople, using Google Earth to show key locations, troop movements, and how the city was finally breached in 1453.

Few dates in history have cast a longer shadow than 1453, when Constantinople – the city of the world’s desire (according to one historian) - fell to the ...

Because it’s not like Illinois has had much going for it over the past several years, specifically Chicago — which in political terms is just a different way of saying the same thing. (This ...