Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

The weekend bombing of a Palm Springs, Calif., fertility clinic has cast a fresh spotlight on a 19th century philosophy ...

From roughly 1600 to 1900, the Kingdom of Dahomey carved out a powerful position in West Africa and a unique place on the ...

The republican tradition is an oft-overlooked strain of 19th-century politics, at odds with liberalism and many currents of ...

A new research paper by Dr. John Wilson and colleagues has been published in the International Journal of the History of ...

Riveted jeans were invented in downtown Reno in 1871, and local tailor Jacob Davis went into business with Levi Strauss a short time later.

Staithes Museum is on the hunt for a missing piece of local history — a diary belonging to Thomas Kirton, an 18th Century ...

Holly Brough takes readers back to 19th-century Spain in her award-winning romantic historical fiction ...

This is thought to be one of the earliest known photographs capturing a group of tourists on Athens's Acropolis, taken around ...

Tribal Chairman Tom Maulson, left, shakes hands with state Department of Natural Resources Secretary George Meyer in April ...

A waterfront mansion in Sausalito with a storied 130-year history is up for grabs for $28 million.  The property, located on ...

When Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in 1942, Jonathan Wainwright and his forces remained behind to face the Japanese.