Sixty years after Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, world's fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S.
A scholar traces the folk figure's history from the Neolithic era to today
The Red Ball Express' truck drivers and cargo loaders moved more than 400,000 tons of ammo, gas, medicine and rations between August and November 1944
In the early 1900s, Joseph Mikulec traveled some 175,000 miles on foot, gathering 60,000 signatures in a leather-bound album that is now up for sale
An Austen expert and a period drama TV critic reflect on the enduring appeal of romance series set in turn-of-the-19th-century England
A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain
Known by the alias Lai Tek, the enigmatic communist swore allegiance first to France, then Britain and finally Japan
The story of a joint Smithsonian-Soviet-Ukrainian program in 1990 lends poignant resonance to Russia’s brutal invasion today
Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative
The fifth-century abbess is stepping out of the shadow of the better-known St. Patrick
A new book tells the stories of four interwar writers who laid the groundwork for modern journalism
The ground-breaking move heralds a new path for interactions between African and Western institutions
During WWII, the Nazis murdered 33,000 Jews at the ravine over just two days. Last week, a strike near the massacre site drew widespread condemnation
During WWII, Ukrainian nationalists saw the Nazis as liberators from Soviet oppression. Now, Russia is using that chapter to paint Ukraine as a Nazi nation
A spin-off of the long-running series "Vikings," the show follows a fictionalized version of Norwegian king Harald Hardrada
It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago
Earlier this month, a Hawaiian delegation retrieved 58 sets of ancestral remains from five European museums
In the 1930s, the mystery writer accompanied her archaeologist husband on annual digs in the Middle East
Between the 1910s and 1960s, thousands of young women formed the backbone of the country's thriving fishing industry
The Muslim minority group faces mass detention and sterilization—human rights abuses that sparked the U.S.' diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics
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