Claims that Harvard no longer teaches Western civilization are wrong. The real threat to the humanities is collapsing student ...

Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of ...

The big thinkers at Aperture condense the history of humanity into ten concise minutes. Venezuelan VP demands US free Maduro ...

Annalee Newitz is the author of “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.” But the historical record shows that reports of the end times always turned out to be wrong. “Barbarians” didn’t ...

The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created the conditions and ingredients that made our existence possible, it was only a series of unlikely events that ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Devin Friend is a graduate of McNeese State University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. Starting from the day that he played Super Mario Kart on a Super Nintendo that he received as a ...