The West once promised freedom, justice and reason. But after centuries of global dominance, war crimes and broken ideals, its future hangs in the balance. As nationalism rises and China stakes its ...

The group spearheading a project to build a new art centre in the N.W.T. is considering putting the facility on the site of a ...

That allowed him finally to buy his freedom. He married a fellow former slave, Maria Picard, and they adopted a young relative whose parents had died of cholera. Vidau supported his wife and son ...

There are quite a few Civil War-related movies that aim to be realistic, including Gettysburg, Fort Apache, and The Outlaw ...

At a three-day conference, African theologians and scholars considered how colonizing countries can make amends for ...

The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...

Most towns in the 1830s had one thing in common: white founders. But tucked away in western Illinois, a free Black man named ...

Petaluma witnessed significant events including Theodore Roosevelt's third-party formation, the first woman voting in Sonoma ...

Co-Director, Institute of Behavioral Science Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research John Kane, MD, served as chair of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital for 34 years and chair of psychiatry at ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

History Knox Mark Sebastian Jordan authors a column each Saturday that reflects on Knox County's rich history. GAMBIER — Knox County’s august Kenyon College has had numerous distinguished alumni, many ...

Taken by Portuguese slave ... North America as part of their colonization efforts in Florida and the Carolinas. By 1620, close to 520,000 captured and enslaved African men, women, and children had ...