Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about ...

As he prepares to release his latest series on the Revolutionary War, the filmmaker reflects on the history of the U.S. and ...

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Doctors at New York University say two new studies show that they are a significant step closer to making cross-species ...

The Stono Rebellion, in which a slave who could read, saw a leaflet from Spanish-held Florida, promising freedom to anyone who could get there. Stono and his compatriots fail. But their mere attempt ...

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as the strongest storm — and only Category 5 hurricane — ever recorded ...

North Carolina is renowned for its music, creativity, and breathtaking mountain views, but its large-scale artworks offer ...

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

While the Vikings' quarterback room has dominated discussions coming out of Sunday's loss to the Eagles, Minnesota's defense is on the verge of making an unfortunate piece of franchise history in ...

Zohran Mamdani walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to New York’s City Hall early Monday morning holding a banner that seemed to answer the president who has opposed him and the portions of the ...