Do you ever meet someone new and find yourself wondering what happened to them to make them the way they are now? Like, where is this sadness from or this anger or this tension in the marriage? How ...

Was the Franco dictatorship a cause or consequence of the Spanish Civil War? Was Einstein a medieval scientist? Confusions like these are quite common among secondary school students, who tend to ...

A team led by Associate Professor of Anthropology Sabrina Curran discovered new evidence of hominin activity in Europe, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – If ever there was a time to know world history, it’s now. Behind what we experience and witness today are historical flashpoints, political brewing, forgotten philosophy and more.

A few weeks ago, I opened my high-school U.S. history classes with an innocuous sounding but freighted question about World War Two. Noting that 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of that ...

An international group of archaeologists, historians, geographers, paleoecologists, and modelers has been working to address this gap. They make up the Past Global Changes (PAGES) LandCover6K working ...

Climate, tectonics and time combine to create powerful forces that craft the face of our planet. Add the gradual sculpting of the Earth’s surface by rivers and what to us seems solid as rock is ...

Traveling back to the distant past isn’t possible and likely won’t be anytime soon. The closest thing we have to turning back the clock are vintage photographs that give us a glimpse of how life was ...

In 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa pronounced that it was now possible to talk about the Gukurahundi era. Cautious hope stirred for many victims that finally they could overcome silence to discuss ...