History majors explore the past, seemingly able to move through time and space to understand distant societies and cultures, often becoming adept critical thinkers and writers during their rigorous ...

A new study suggests linguistic diversity reached its peak between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E. before declining Cool Finds Students in Florida Discovered a 400-Year-Old Intact Pot That Reveals Conflict ...

To make good choices, companies must be able to calculate and manage the attendant risks. Today, myriad sophisticated tools can help them do so. But it was only a few hundred years ago that the risk ...

Three short animations exploring The Gunpowder Plot in 1605 - why it happened, the main events and the outcome for Guy Fawkes and the other plotters. Three short animations exploring The Great Fire of ...

This collection contains curriculum relevant videos, quizzes and games to help Years 1/2 and P2/3 History history students with: Here you will find videos and activities about Black History Month. Try ...

Since motion pictures were invented, audiences have loved how they tell stories. Movies enabled people to travel the world vicariously, and experience tragedy, love and nearly every other emotion.

Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce produces first permanent photograph of a view from nature. Uses the photosensitivity of bitumen of Judea. January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal ...

In 1834, Mary Somerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences argued that astronomy, physics and mathematics belonged together. Saad Bhamla asks why this kind of synthesis tends to disappear ...

The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, remembered as one of history's greatest conquerors, shares countless parallels with that of Julius Caesar. Fueled by a profound admiration for the classics, Napoleon, ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission has made a significant discovery at the Tell Quesna Necropolis in Menoufia governorate, unearthing a well-preserved funerary complex from the Late and Greco-Roman ...