The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms large in ...

As a young lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi wasn’t especially interested in politics—until 1894, when a law set out to disenfranchise ...

Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...

Tiny fossils from Hokkaido are revealing a surprisingly mobile ancient ocean during a warmer world. A team led by researchers ...

The Cleveland Arcade decorated with American flags for the U.S. Bicentennial in October 1976 in Cleveland. (Howard Ruffner/Getty Images) Table of Contents In July, the United States will celebrate ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Daniel Immerwahr about how President Trump is forging a new world order through his foreign policy.

Archaeologists have unearthed an astonishing collection of metalwork in North Yorkshire, shedding new light on the power, ...

The true architects, the spies, the strategists, and the sailors who literally sailed off the edge of the known world, have been erased from our collective memory. This is the untold story of the ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece ...

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very ...

We're starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A ...

Frida Kahlo, 1933, by Magda Pach, from Smithsonian museum collections; Taj Mahal, completed 1643, Agra, India; Starry Night, ca. 1889, by Vincent Van Gogh; The Calf ...