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A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
For the first time in human history ... soon departed again for Europe. The enduring legacy of the brief adventure was a narrative written to Francis I, the French king who had helped to sponsor the ...
A massive 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershock struck near Mandalay, Burma, shaking buildings and damaging infrastructure ...
But, just as a photo lens must be focused before being brought into full clarity, so it would be with the developing map of the world. For the first time in human history, the full expanse was ...
Newsweek has created a map showing the European nations where governments ... because diversity is an inherent part of our country's history. In addition to that, laws have been created to ...
About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...
The blue glass beads from Venice journeyed around 10,000 miles to the Americas more than five centuries ago and were the size ...
The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.
A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...
Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that Ukrainian troops are active inside Russia’s Belgorod region, as Kyiv seeks to protect ...
Described as a 'gold mine,' the data could help solve astronomical questions about the expansion of the universe and the nature of dark energy and dark matter, which occupy 95% of the cosmos.