The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

The Stono Rebellion, in which a slave who could read, saw a leaflet from Spanish-held Florida, promising freedom to anyone who could get there. Stono and his compatriots fail. But their mere attempt ...

The 200-year history of democracy, told through an animated time-lapsed map showing how government systems have evolved over ...

Boundaries have rarely remained constant throughout history. The world is changed by empires, alliances, and political ...

A new apostolate brings the ‘saints back into the heart of the Church’s life' on the feast of the Veneration of the Holy ...

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...

Despite being established in 1977, making it 26 teams in MLB alongside the Toronto Blue Jays, the Seattle Mariners have had some of baseball's biggest stars over the years. Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar ...

Shohei Ohtani did something never before seen in MLB history Friday night. The Japanese phenom hit three home runs and pitched six scoreless innings, leading the Dodgers back to the World Series. Los ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...

When politics falls in love with pop, the result isn’t a romance. It’s a referendum on power, spectacle, and how we worship both. He used to run a G7 country. She sang about kissing a girl and loving ...

History was made when the high altitude Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh became the first cold desert in India to be listed in the UNESCO Global Network of Biosphere Reserves. The announcement is a ...

Water is among the most shared resources on earth. Close to half of the earth’s land surface lies within river and lake basins that cross international borders, while an estimated two billion people ...