Love will soon be in the air with Valentine’s Day, and as the old saying goes, the way to many of our hearts is through our ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

The US returning to the politics of the late 19th century raises the prospect of greater inequality, oligarchy, imperialism ...

When it comes to Jane Austen-inspired books and movies, Helen Fielding’s book-turned-movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is one of the most recognizable. Not only did the novel help shape the modern ...

Some background behind the historical ties between the people of Gaza, the West Bank, British Mandate Palestine and the wider Muslim world.

With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

A longstanding Sinophobia in the U.S. goes back to the 19th century, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, the tax on Chinese miners during the Gold Rush, and ...

When Immanuel Wallerstein died in 2019, he was one of the most influential thinkers about the crisis-ridden development of ...

Being bombarded by other people’s achievements online left Esther Walker constantly comparing and doubting herself. When she ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, ...

Anglo-Gaelic and North American whisky became the foremost distilled spirit in the English-speaking world. Since then, the ...

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly denied that his tariff plan would lead to inflation. When ABC News asked him in ...