She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

In 1842, Friedrich Engels walked the streets of Manchester in the UK, noting its crowded tenements and sunless, smoke-filled ...

Alice Loxton doesn’t believe history should be boring or academic. As “History Alice,” she connects with millions of people ...

Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The August 2026 total solar eclipse will pass above beautiful destinations such as Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, and Spain.

Bringing Americans together as the Marquis de Lafayette did would be unlikely in 2024, but the country can still learn from ...

Early this year, when new crisis seemed to impend in Asia, the American people were exposed to an edifying exercise in the discussion of foreign policy. As Chinese troops massed on the Indo-Chinese ...

Thomas Mann’s intellectual masterpiece is interested in time, love, mortality, culture – and the fragility of civilisation.

The bowls were up to 8,400 years old, dating to the late Neolithic period, and previous studies found they could sustain high temperatures for long periods of time, suggesting they were used for ...