With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

Archaeologists have found Europe’s oldest vanilla pod in a Prague Castle trash heap, reshaping historical views on trade and luxury goods.

What false historical information appeared online on April Fool’s Day this year? Did a Hittite document really prove the Trojan War?

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky survived the Nazi concentration camps and went on to write one of the most important books ...

Today is the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days left in the year. 1995: Tejano singing star Selena, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by founder of her fan club. Yolanda Saldivar is ...

Chamberlain died Saturday night in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications following a stroke, according to his publicist, Harlan ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

In the past, there were few protocols for the proper excavation and preservation of artifacts in London, a city rich […] ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author of the Daevabad trilogy and “The ...