Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

The recorded past and the remembered past are seldom the same. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Crusades. The Crusades were a belated counter-offensive of Western Christians to come to the ...

The Crusades will get its theatrical release on July 7, 2023. The upcoming film showcases the exploits of three friends, from a private school for boys. Their institute is set to be merged with an ...

When I was growing up as a Nice Jewish Boy in day school, we were taught that the Crusades were one of the worst episodes in history: marauding Christian soldiers massacring everyone in sight.

One of history’s lessons is that any ideology, sacred or secular, that divides the world into ‘us versus them’ can and will be used to justify violence At the National Prayer Breakfast, President ...

Christian and Muslim attempts to draw parallels between the tensions of today and the crusades of almost 1,000 years ago are a distortion and manipulation of history, according to historian Tom ...

A Crusader navy attacks the Muslim port of Damietta in this 15th-century painting of the Fifth Crusade by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen French historian Joseph Francois Michaud (1767-1839), in his ...

When President Bush first declared the war on terrorism soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, he made the mistake of using the word "crusade" to describe it. That was much condemned in the Arab world, ...