Japanese settlers faced displacement, loss, and an uncertain future in a broken nation as they navigated the harrowing ...

The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 permanently shattered Spain's image of invincibility and boosted England’s rise.

Viking settlements, Polynesian sailors, Siberian traders, and continent spanning trade networks linked the Americas at the margins years before Columbus’ voyage.

Objects from East Africa reached as far as China owing to the Swahili, a Bantu-speaking people with a unique blend of African ...

Contrary to popular opinion, voodoo has nothing to do with devil-worship. It cannot be categorized as a mere form of anti-Christian satanic witchcraft; it is a folk religion in its own right and a ...

Rastafari ranks among the newest of the global religions. Its roots go back to the 1930s, when Jamaican philosopher and activist Marcus Garvey and others advocated for the self-determination of people ...

Monumental Statue of Ramesses II, c. 1279-1189 BCE, via The British Museum; Battle Scene from the Great Kadesh Reliefs of Ramesses II, c. 1865-1935, via Digital Library of India The lands of Canaan ...

Adolf Hitler began his political career in 1919 and secured his first state office in 1933. He then became the dictator of ...

The earliest examples of Gothic architecture date back to the second half of the 12th century. The worksites of cathedrals involved architects, master carpenters, stonemasons, and glassworkers, and ...

The history of beer goes back to the dawn of human civilization. This popular alcoholic drink appeared in the Neolithic, at the same time as bread (if not earlier) during the agricultural revolution, ...

Unleashing a global ideology that changed the world, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels altered the course of history.

In the latter half of the 19th century, sweeping reforms laid the foundations for a newer and more powerful Japan.