Spanish colonies on indigenous labor levies; sub-Saharan Africa on slavery; the American South on slavery and later a form of racial apartheid not all that unlike South Africa's; and the Soviet ...

The Amazônia Revelada project aims to identify sites in the Amazon by combining state-of-the-art technology with the traditional knowledge of forest peoples.

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

On the map below, gradations from green ... the Ottoman Empire relied on tax farming; Spanish colonies on indigenous labor ...

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 ...

A map of the fictional Republic of Z ... In many ways, Z came across as a stand-in for the many nations the U.S. largely ...

A map showing all the countries that Britain has invaded over ... Britain's Empire began in the 1500s with trading posts in the Americas and Africa. By the 1800s, it had spread across Asia and ...

Opening at Film Forum on Nov. 1, director Johan Grimonprez’s documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat” is a stunning achievement.

Only 80 inhabit all of Africa. Retail species like deer ... Those of you who love smallmouth fishing, you'd better get on it." Moles showed maps of some highly degraded mussel habitat on the Ouachita ...

Naval power in the Middle East is incredibly important for protecting not only the maritime borders of individual countries, ...