Author: Laurent Dubois

The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the stru...

When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected ...

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their mast...

The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound—strings humming over skin—that has eased souls and e...