His enemies paint him as all-powerful, but the billionaire philanthropist believes that his political legacy has never been in greater jeopardy.

The burned crumbs shed light on prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ diets.

Toward a Concrete Utopia focuses on the period of intense construction in Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980

A mysterious crop circle in an Irish farmer's field is actually the outline of a buried monument from 5,000 years ago, archeologists say.

A deathbed promise led to me discovering his complicity in the Holocaust — and what it means beyond my family

In an era of illiterate racist YouTube comments, to worry about semicolons seeming overly sophisticated would be splitting a hair that no longer exists.

The epic effort to rescue Floyd Collins was a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, and life and death.

The mantra about the best way to respond to online abuse has only made it worse

Why the nostalgia-saturated labels subgenre is reviving the long abandoned format.

Ever wonder where the Friday the 13th origin and fear comes from? Here’s about 100 theories, facts, and historical events on the “bad luck” date.

Where would a bicyclist find "witness trees" at Gettysburg? This article offers a map, photos, and how-to directions. Do you love the idea of learning American History while exploring civil war battlefields on a bicycle? If so, this site is for you!

Five centuries ago, the world’s longest rave took place in Strasbourg – a ‘plague’ of dancing that was fatal for some. What caused it? Art, poetry and music of the time can provide some clues

Was writing invented for accounting and administration or did it evolve from religious movements, sorcery and dreams?

A wildly incorrect 1923 study on Stonehenge led to all kinds of wrong ideas about the monument's history.

You might have seen the cartoon: two cavemen sitting outside their cave knapping stone tools. One says to the other: ‘Something’s just not right – our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past 30.’

Conquer the globe? You bet we did – but when did it start? A new paper shows early humans made tools in China two million years ago.

Bahasa Indonesia was adopted to make communication easier across the vast Indonesian archipelago, but its simplicity has only created new barriers.

The US government detonated hundreds of above-ground nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1963 — until the first nuclear test-ban treaty was signed. Now a team has rescued thousands of classified films that were kept in high-security storage.

A Half Century Later, Still No Justice. By Jeffrey St. Clair.

In a nearly unprecedented move, Romania changed course on a bid to protect a site containing rare archeological artifacts.

Civil War drummers were a critical part of the army. Here are five things you should know about them.

Every year on the third day of July, a dozen Iranian children on board a ship throw gladiolas into the sea to commemorate the memory of innocent men, women, and children whose bodies were afloat, like the flowers, on the waters of the Persian Gulf. By Hossein Nazari.

Controversy followed the publication of footage of a young queen giving a Nazi salute. But in those days, British high society’s worship of Hitler was in full bloom. By Tom Sykes. (July 20, 2016)

In many ways, Stalin is key to understanding Georgia’s political climate. By Jessica Loudis.

An illiterate North Carolina soldier paid the ultimate price for deserting the Confederate state

Interdisciplinary research led to the discovery that three historic books were covered in a layer of arsenic.

Revisiting a rare and tragic dispatch from a war correspondent whose son, a Union officer, was among those killed on the battlefield.

What is the oldest human-made structure in Detroit?

It took 20 years to find his stomach. Now researchers know what was inside—in excruciating detail. ÖTZI THE ICEMAN'S stomach wasn't where it was supposed to be. The misplaced organ eluded researchers for some 20 years. But in 2009, while looking at new radiographic scans, they finally found it—inexplicably pushed up under his ribs, where the lower lungs usually sit. What's more, it was completely full.

Humans have spent more than 10 centuries emptying the ocean of some of its most extraordinary animals. Today, a coalition of scientists and fishermen are trying to turn the tide – and learning that conservation is much harder than destruction

The French historian Ernest Renan said: "Forgetting … is a crucial factor in the creation of the nation." In contemporary China, it’s put into practice with surgical skill. Specific memories of events deemed sensitive by the state are not just forgotten, they are winnowed out and selectively deleted. The Communist Party has succeeded in hacking the collective memory.

The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.

North Atlantic professional philosophy has only recently been awakening to the realization that societies in the global South have rich traditions of thought. While efforts to break beyond the narrow canon of academic philosophy ought to be welcomed, a truly robust engagement with African, Asian, Latin American and other philosophical systems will demand more than the odd additional reading tacked on at the bottom of the syllabus to round off the semester.

Archaeologists uncover the remains of a giant rack of skulls beneath downtown Mexico City

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