Civil rights protest march on Franklin Street by Jim Wallace, 1964. Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC The foundation of the Civil Rights Movement was built ...

The C-47 Skytrain featured intelligent design features that made it an integral part of World War II’s Allied military ...

The second millennium, from a Christian perspective, is arguably best known for the Reformation and the religious conflict it caused. Most Christians know names such as Martin Luther and John Calvin ...

These 12 infamous leaders from the 6th century BC to the 20th century AD are among the most impactful in history and shaped ...

Laos, an officially neutral state, became a battleground of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. From 1964 to 1973, the US Air Surveillance dropped two ...

If captured and given a choice of life or death, most chose life as double agents. The quest to obtain information led all to ...

Debunking the myths about Japan’s shadow warriors is easy, but changing the century-old stereotype certainly isn’t.

The Flood Tablet, Tablet 11 of the Gilgamesh epic, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 7th century BC; with The Palette of Narmer, 1st Dynasty; and The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC The alphabet we use to write today in the ...

Ritualized human sacrifice in Hawaiian culture by Jacques Arago, 1819, via theconversation.com, with; An artist’s conception of ritual human sacrifice, via Historical Picture Archive / Corbis / Getty, ...

Before the Olympians, so named because they made their home on Mount Olympus, there were the Titans, the offspring of the primordial gods of the earth and sky, Gaia and Ouranos. It was Ouranos himself ...

Sultan Mehmed III intentionally had his 19 brothers executed as his very first official act after taking over Ottoman ...

The first and second centuries CE was a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity for all the ancient empires of Eurasia (comprising Europe and Asia). China flourished under the Han dynasty in the ...