In the past 50 years, the way we tell the story of the Revolution has become dramatically more complex. Can it still inspire ...

This article delves into the origins of swear words, tracing their historical journey and exploring examples of how they ...

The advent of modern antibiotics contributed enormously to the dramatic extension of human lifespan since their discovery by virtue of their lethal and selective action against pathogenic microbes.

From the 1598 Thanksgiving claim to the 2025 mayoral election see the milestones that defined El Paso history.

Late in the new movie The Report, Adam Driver’s Dan Jones argues with his prospective defense attorney over who really said, “History is written by the victors.” The lawyer (played by Corey Stoll) ...

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” The project ...

Hunter-gatherer communities, especially young children, were hit hard by an early strain of plague 5,500 years ago.

Genome sequencing has revealed insights into how current-day residents of the Faroe Islands can trace their ancestry to a North Atlantic founder population and how evolutionary forces have shaped ...

All right. The ongoing Ebola outbreak is an example of how a disease can jump from animals to humans and then spread through a population. A new study looks at one of the most prolific pathogens in ...

I N 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East ...

June 24, 2026 • Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society. June 23, ...

The famous waterway began as two rivers, a new study suggests. Tectonic activity around five million years ago probably made ...