Mari Hulbutta, my friend and suitemate from college—we were both members of the Native American student group—couldn’t sleep Wednesday, the night before the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark Native-treaty-rights case, McGirt v. Oklahoma. Hulbutta is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a descendant of the Muscogee Creek and Seminole Nations, all in present-day Oklahoma.

Dutch colonists committed genocide to secure a spice monopoly. But there's more to the story.

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 – 1799) was a champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris. The son of a wealthy married planter, and his wife's African slave. The black Mozart

It was only in the 19th century the West became aware of Buddhism as a religion in its own right – but the Buddha had been a Christian saint for centuries.

As we topple statues, let’s also search for our own moral blind spots.

Examining the cultural and commercial legacy of Japan’s iconic arcade game on its 40th anniversary.

It's like something straight out of a sci-fi film.

Former Los Angeles police department detective Steve Hodel has spent the last 15 years cataloguing evidence that his dad killed Elizabeth Short – and others

When a young Southern Baptist pastor named Alan Cross arrived in Montgomery, Ala., in January 2000, he knew it was where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had his first church and where Rosa Parks helped launched the famous bus boycott, but he didn't know some other details of the city's role in civil rights history.

The gadget that taught the world to socially distance.

Women's football was huge during WW1, so why did it disappear so dramatically after the war finished?

Charlie Bourne was an expert in computerized search for 40 years before Google. CHM has recently finished cataloging his unique collection of materials documenting the history of online search and information systems from the 1950s onward, supported by a generous grant from the National Archives.

For conscious consumers, palm oil tends to be the pariah of tropically grown crops. This is due to the well-publicized fact that oil palm plantations are highly destructive to biodiversity, displacing critically endangered species like orangutans. But palm oil isn’t the only consumable oil that causes environmental damage, according to a new study.

West African king Mansa Musa had more wealth than the Forbes' five richest billionaires combined.

The breakout song from Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park’ movie took center stage at the 2000 Academy Awards. Twenty years later, it remains a declaration of the duo’s ethos—and a prism into their complicated legacy.

The Biblical ruler’s story has been told for millennia, Ruth Margalit writes. Archeologists are still fighting over whether it’s true.

Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness

Domestication of world's most common farm animal had been debated since Charles Darwin

The unusual burials hint at complex social structure and spiritual beliefs.

It dates back decades before Vikings are supposed to have settled the island.