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Four centuries after her death, Good Queen Bess still draws crowds. A regal rash of exhibitions and books examines her life anew
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As archaeologists worldwide help recover looted artifacts, they worry for the safety of the great sites of early civilization
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The White House correspondent's career as a journalist spanned ten presidencies and was marked by an unwavering dedication to the truth
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Senate staffers come across a historic treasure in a dusty storage room
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MaVynee Betsch wants to memorialize a haven for African-Americans in the time of Jim Crow
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Where do you put all those treasures?
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Elephant researchers believe they can boost captive-animal reproduction rates and reverse a potential population crash in zoos
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Research suggests they fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
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In 1899, railroad magnate Edward Harriman invited preeminent scientists in America to join him on a working cruise to Alaska, then largely unexplored
Researchers' efforts to clone the vanished Tasmanian tiger highlight the quandary of reviving long-gone creatures
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It took Margaret Mead to understand the two nations separated by a common language
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The innovative artist has devoted his life to transforming
David Douglas Duncan's Life photographs captured the courage and anguish of marines in Korea, bringing home the gravity of war
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Born 200 years ago this month, Ralph Waldo Emerson had some strange ideas about the natural world. Recent research suggests they might even be true
Even as he endured the hardships of Valley Forge, George Washington faced another challenge: critics who questioned his fitness to lead
Our unusually far-flung correspondents report
Enslaved Africans endured the largest forced migration in history
Ever since Britain carved the nation out of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the land long known as Mesopotamia has been wracked by instability
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