Soldiers tend to be much more down on war than those who send them into it, writes Juliet Jacques, as even the briefest look ...

Some of the world’s borders are just . . . weird. You know this very well if you’re a traveler, a student of history, or ...

It was a period during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored new lands in the Americas, Africa, and ...

In South Africa, Google and Facebook dominate the online advertising industry, and are considered an existential threat to local media. Uber has captured so much of the traditional taxi industry that ...

Emerging Salmonella Typhimurium ST213 strains challenge traditional pathogen understanding. What can we learn from its ...

In different Chassidic sects when males change three-years old, they have an upsherin (sect relevant typical Brooklin-Yiddish ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

The impact President Trump's election will have on American foreign policy is still up for discussion, but for all practical ...

one party turned the executive office to another The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell The ...

Africa has hosted many great empires over the ages, but despite having contact with both Europe and Asia, did not keep up ...