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

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

As RSIFF marks its fifth edition, the event's founding MD discusses structural change in the Saudi film industry, the huge ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

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), ...

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Mr. Trump last week declared that he had ended the decades-old conflict between Congo and Rwanda when he gathered several ...

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 ...

The biggest luggage pieces that had been packed onto a flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International are unloaded and ...

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