When Stanley entered Africa, parts of the map were still labeled “unknown.” What he found would change history — but at what ...

The struggle over sea access in East Africa is usually presented as a quarrel over tariffs, port fees and corridors. In fact, ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

On Dec. 5, 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with white people.

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The groups for the 2026 FIFA World Cup have been set. Here's a breakdown of the 48-team tournament, including a look at the ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...