I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

Consider three big examples: the evidence for cosmic design in the fundamental laws and structure of the universe; the ...

Egypt was home to the first known scientist, Imhotep, a brilliant Black physician. Famous for designing King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the Egyptian polymath Imhotep (Greek: Imouthes, c.

Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Rome continues with the new series on the reign of Augustus and his successors, in a series we call the Julio-Claudian ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

In the early months of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. did something he rarely allowed himself to do -- he stepped away. He ...

I remember growing up on Hydra every summer in the 1980s, leaving Salt Lake City, Utah to go to our home on my father’s ...