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Beneath the ruins of Genghis Khan’s capital city in Central Asia, archaeologists discovered artifacts from cultures near and far
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Colombia Dispatch 11: Former Bogota mayor Enrique Peñalosa
The former mayor of Colombia’s capital city transformed Bogota with ‘green’ innovations that employed the poor and helped the environment
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Rare Photos Chronicle an Early Castro Rally in Cuba
When Fidel Castro asked for a show of hands in support of his new policies, an American journalist captured the response
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As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp
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On the 40th anniversary of the wartime leader’s death, historians are reassessing the complex figure who carried Britain through its darkest hour
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Digging into a Historic Rivalry
As archaeologists unearth a secret slave passageway used by abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, scholars reevaluate his reputation and that of James Buchanan
In a new book, a British journalist documents the day-by-day march into conflict in Iraq
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“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg
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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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