An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced historian Mohamed Amine Belghit to five years in prison for offending national ...

A historian may have deciphered the meaning of a mysterious set of symbols found on temples in an ancient city built around 2,700 years ago. The symbols, made of glazed brick, were used to ...

Virginia's new law bans Nazi symbols used to intimidate, while clearly distinguishing Hitler's Hakenkreuz from the sacred ...

Old Chicago police station now a haven for LGBTQ+ seniors 02:42. A building in the Lakeview neighborhood, once a symbol of oppression for homosexuals, is now a haven for gay senior citizens.

To separate Freemason fact from Lost Symbol-style myth, National Geographic News went inside the centuries-old order with two Masons and a historian of the ancient Christian order from which some ...

Historian John M. Coski examines the fights over the symbol's meaning in "The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem." ...

White, purple, and yellow. The women’s movement didn’t rely on visual symbols at first, notes historian Einav Rabinovitch-Fox. That changed in the early 20th century, when suffragists in ...

From Vietnam to Gaza, Harvard Yard has served as a historic stage for student protests and political activism.

A German historian is collecting and preserving artifacts from the Berlin Wall, before the physical and ideological barrier that divided the city for almost 60 years fades from living memory.

Others, like Cherokee, use symbols that represent syllables. The first alphabet was invented in ancient Egypt , more than 5,000 years ago, and was developed to record religious texts.

Interview: Tito 'Symbol Of Better Times' For Ex-Yugoslavs, Historian Says May 04, 2010 13:02 CET Josip Broz Tito speaks at the first congress of the anti-Nazi union of Serbian youth, Belgrade ...