THE great religious movements of the past have a peculiar fascination for all readers of history. Like Hamlet and Faust, they have something in them to meet the demands of every mood. Nowhere else in ...

Owen Stanwood, assistant history professor at Boston College, spoke Friday to students about the Huguenots — French Protestants who fled France in the 16th and 17th centuries due to religious ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Huguenots, a group of Christian believers originating in France, were part of the larger Protestant Reformation which swept across Northern Europe in the 16th century. As ...

History will come alive on Fort Hill Road this Saturday, weather permitting, when the Huguenot Memorial Society of Oxford hosts its annual celebration of the first European settlement in town. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historic Huguenot Street tells the history of the French-speaking Huguenot settlers who came to New Paltz, alongside the histories ...

London has Louis XIV to thank for its rich Huguenot heritage. In 1685 the magniloquent, bewigged twit renounced the Edict of Nantes, effectively turning France into a living hell for thousands of ...

The French Huguenot puzzle piece of St. Augustine's history is beautifully rendered by well-known artist Jean Wagner Troemel. A nonagenarian, Troemel, painted the early Huguenot history in Memorial ...

On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become one of the worst religious massacres of the 16th century. The St. Bartholomew ...

Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz honored David Lent, Susana Lent and the late John P. “Jack” Strang for their outstanding commitment to the preservation and advancement of Huguenot history in ...

An urban holocaust: the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572 Credit: Photo: Prisma / UIG / Rex Features In Paris, in the early hours of August 24, 1572, bells rang to signal the beginning of a ...