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 ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

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

To visit Fort Lewis College’s Center of Southwest Studies gallery is to be surrounded by dozens of intricate, brightly ...

Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis ...

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." ...