On Aug. 3, 2005, in the first emergency repair conducted in space, astronauts fixed a potentially dangerous problem by ...

Retired senior history lecturer at The University of the West Indies and co-director of the Caribbean Freedom Project Dr ...

In this fun and simplified history of America, we explore the unexpected rise of the United States to its position as the ...

The statue's pedestal removal Thursday angered the president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, who called it ...

In 2010, a worldwide ban on cluster bombs went into effect. Cluster bombs, usually dropped from planes, are filled with ...

Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492 seeking a westward route to Asia but instead reached the Americas, unaware of their true significance. Though long credited with "discovering" America, Indigenous ...

Major events for the week of Sunday, Aug. 3, through Saturday, Aug. 9, include Columbus’ voyage, Jesse Owens’s Olympic ...

One morning, a citizen wakes up to find the statue of Christopher Columbus has disappeared from its plinth; another day, ...