Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...

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From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are ...

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Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

TO begin with, the Philippines would have been truly independent as early as 1898 had it not been for the United States ...

Fortunately, history has taught us that such projects of elimination fail when they are met with resistance and resilience.

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Meet the Narragansett people of Rhode Island in this week's podcast episode of "Lost Cultures: Living Legacies." ...

Through its numerous statements and decisions, the Trump administration is breaking with the American hegemony that has long ...

This began with the American Revolution in 1776 and the Haitian Revolution in 1781. However, the Eastern Hemisphere continued to tempt European colonial powers.