In the late 1890s, naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan made a compelling argument for the United States’ possession of Hawaii. Those interested in the annexation of Greenland might take note.

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

In a move that has left European leaders reeling, President Trump has shared a provocative image that reimagines North ...

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The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.

A musket ball shattered Byfield ’s left forearm in 1814, nine days after the bloody nighttime fight at Lundy’s Lane, a ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

Editor’s note: This post has been updated. Read the original post here. For those following the Gregorian calendar, and that’s most of us, that magic moment when the old year ends in the last seconds ...