The National Archives, built to safeguard America's heritage, holds more than 13.5 billion paper records. But it's been in ...

It's not just home to the U.S.'s founding documents. The National Archives safeguards about 13.5 billion paper records, including the check used to buy Alaska and Adolf Hitler's will.

For a more unusual and slightly eerie experience, visit the Catacombs of Rome, a series of underground burial sites used by ...

It might be surprising to some, but the notion of Palestine as an ancient Arab nation is a misconception. A distinct ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Edward Watts, a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, delivered a lecture this past Wednesday ...

Today, it often seems that our country’s scope and knowledge of history is reduced to a few platitudes concerning ... when ...

In everyday life, Romans preferred simple and comfortable clothing, such as the tunic — a shirt-like garment resembling a ...

Writer Ryan Maddigan makes the case for elective upper-level history courses on campus. With access to a multitude of STEM labs, nursing clinicals, business networking events and interdisciplinary ...

“Ancient Rome was of course patriarchal and violent,” Lewis Webb ... Still, Rolling Stone asked Mike Duncan — the host of the popular podcast “The History of Rome” and author of The New York Times ...

For over a century, the northern Netherlands, also known as the Republic of the United Provinces, enjoyed independence, while ...