Nothing seems more ancient than the pageantry of the British monarchy. Yet, the grandeur seen today emerged only around 1870.

For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring ...

Fierce Desires,” by Rebecca L. Davis, is a wide-ranging survey of how Americans have thought about and practiced and policed ...

The new book by David Olusoga and his siblings, Yinka and Kemi, will change everything you thought you knew about history and the people who have shaped it.

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 1870s and it's still the most common layout used on keyboards today - ...

He wasn’t keen to take the job,” says Arun Pai, the co-founder of Bangalore Walks, who recently delivered a lecture on this ...

The curriculum, a copy of which was obtained by the AP, promotes abstinence, explains sex as “God’s invention for married ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

Franklin Grove School celebrated Grandparents Day with a record attendance of more than 500 adults on Wednesday.

You may have seen their names dozens of times, but how much do you know about the people Italy’s streets are named after?

The astonishing idealism and energy manifest in the advance of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has taken the higher education world by storm. Universities have been shaken to their foundations by ...

In predominantly Catholic Paraguay, with the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in South America, the Ministry of Education has approved the country's first national sex education curriculum. But it's ...