NEW YORK—Somewhere in the shadows of federal bureaucracy, there was an issue pertaining to the drinking habits of Augusto Pinochet. The National Security Archive, an advocate for open government, had ...

When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground. —Variation of an African proverb In the ...

NEW YORK—Manhattan’s K.G.B. Espionage Museum opened in January, showcasing equipment belonging to the Soviet secret security agency. During ...

Commentary The ancient Chinese author of "The Art of War" wrote that “supreme excellence consists of breaking the ...

The Second World War could have ended differently if not for a random act of kindness by former ...

The final burial place for one of the most important people in Colonial Australian history has finally been ...

Plutarch insisted that history must teach us how to live better lives, or else it is both less ...

From Columbus' shipwreck to George Washington's crossing of the Delaware, there have been a lot of world-changing events ...

There is no more powerful or lasting way to teach a moral lesson than through a story that ...

Commentary Imagine Einstein settling on C = mc2, or McDonald's serving up quarter-pounders with cabbage. Imagine filling up the car ...

These pictures peek into the daily life of Iraq, mostly Baghdad, between 1940s and 1980s. A time of ...

President Donald Trump proclaimed Nov. 9 as "World Freedom Day," to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Historian and educator Jason Goetz looks to the classics as a means for our culture to survive. As ...

Cao Jie is an obscure character in Chinese history compared to his illustrious great-grandson, the ruler Cao Cao, ...

The People's Republic celebrates lifting over 80 million people out of poverty. But it was the CCP that ...

The Azores archipelago is about 1,000 miles off the coast of Europe, about a third of the way to North ...

Underwater archaeologists made an extremely rare discovery at the world-famous Antikythera shipwreck site in Greece—the 2,000-year-old remains of ...

The first skeleton has been found amidst the Antikythera Shipwreck, and researchers hope to extract DNA evidence from ...

Aqueducts and man-made wells built about 1,500 years ago in Peru by the Nazca people are still in ...

Ancient Mayan and Chinese calendar systems share so many similarities, it is unlikely they developed independently, according to ...

Archaeologists in Austria have announced the discovery of a pair of rare mammoth tusks estimated to be around ...

Paleontologists with the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture have made a major discovery. ...

The word "serendipity" has many pop-culture references, but many people don't know its original meaning or realize its ...

Chivalry-Now is a movement that introduces a new form of chivalry for the 21st century. Founder Dean Jacques ...

On Friday, UNESCO announced it has inscribed nine new sites on its World Heritage List.

An ancient tablet dated to around 5,000 years ago from an area called Uruk in Mesopotamia--located in present-day ...

Unlike some cities, the Spanish capital of Madrid doesn't smack you over the head with what it has ...