They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...

Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens.

Alexander Hamilton. The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor; he used original documents to ...

The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of ...

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman looks beyond the empty tomb to find perhaps ...

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could ...

Wild celebrations erupted in Washington DC on Saturday, September 7th 1850, when the Bill which made California the thirty-first state of the United States was passed by the House of Representatives.