Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some ...

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...

Introduction : History's changing fortunes -- The rise and fall of cultural theories -- The challenge of globalization -- Rethinking society and the self -- New purposes, new paradigms "With history ...

For years, "globalization" has been blamed for shuttered factories, stagnant wages, and political anger across the American heartland. Yet the data and the policy record point to a different story: ...

The lecture examines the long and tangled modern history of Catholicism and democracy, with one eye toward its implications for the study of global history and another toward our understanding of the ...