Archaeological Research in Africa explores new historical evidence of one of pre-colonial Dongola's earliest rulers.

The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day ...

In our roundup of travel stories this week: a man recreates his father’s round-the-world bicycle trip, a luxury yacht that turned out to be a mold-covered wreck, plus the ancient Roman city 10 times ...

This photo was taken from the Notebook of Civil Works Administration projects in Talbot County in 1934! Street paving in St. Michaels, Maryland, was Project 2 in the notebook, and the sign reads C. W.

Chernobyl, the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster, has found renewed success on Apple TV.

Some cities do not soften out under fire and conquest they fade away as rivers cease to flow. The remains of one of the last foundations of Alexander of Macedon in the southern part of Iraq are the ...

This year, we celebrate the most significant milestone in our Nation’s history: 250 glorious years of American independence. From the very beginning, our country has been blessed with countless black ...

I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...

Black history has always existed. The fight has never been about whether it happened, but whether it would be acknowledged, taught, and remembered. This year at theGrio, our Black History Month theme ...

Throughout his career, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB’1908, AM’1908, worked to change how Americans thought about Black history. The University of Chicago alum began that mission when, in February ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...