By Alton Parrish.   Scientists have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long “growth blip” among southwestern Native Americans between 500 and 1300 A.D. It was a [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Did the Khazars convert to Judaism? The view that some or all Khazars, a central Asian people, became Jews during the ninth or tenth century is widely accepted. But following an exhaustive analysis of the evidence, [...]

  By Rich Rubino. No matter what else he accomplishes in life, David Brat’s obituary may well read “Giant Killer” or something to that effect. The fact that the formerly obscure Randolph-Macon College Economics Professor [...]

  By Elliott Adams.  June 6th came once more. D-day was a long time ago and I didn’t intend to make anything of it.  I was surprised by the emotional turmoil I felt, by how I felt about that day in my gut.  I realized that while [...]

  By  National Security Archives. A recently declassified report by Sandia National Laboratory, published by the National Security Archive, provides new details on the 1961 Goldsboro, North Carolina, nuclear weapons accident. Both multi-megaton [...]

    By Iwan Morgan. I have just finished teaching a graduate course on the management of the U.S. economy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. Given that economic crises bookended the syllabus, student interest in the [...]

By Julian French. D-Day. 6 June. 0430 hours Zulu. As I write this 61,715 British troops alongside 57,500 Americans and some 21,500 Canadians supported by 6939 ships and craft of various sorts and some 11,600 aircraft are three hours off the [...]

  By University of Barcelona. A study co-headed by Josep Lluís Araus, professor from the University of Barcelona (UB), Juan Pedro Ferrio, Ramón y Cajal researcher at Agrotecnio of the University of Lleida (UdL), and Jordi Voltas, professor [...]

  By Subodh Rana. The grainy black and white film runs incessantly like a recurring nightmare: there are half-starving Varsovians fighting with all means at their disposal, children running the gauntlet to supply the soldiers, women frenetically [...]

Kashi Bai led a double life for a time of her asylum in the court of Maharajah Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal. She was a widow to the world but she never ceased wearing her tika of red vermilion powder on her forehead, clinking glass bangles on [...]

  By David Swanson. Korea — North and South are caught in the tragic cold war mentality with a divided country imposed on them by the United States (and not opposed by the  Soviet Union) back in 1945 and solidified in 1948. Ten [...]

    By Alton Parrish.   Unlike modern Man, the prehistoric people of Europe did not use mind-altering substances simply for their hedonistic pleasure. The use of alcohol and plant drugs – such as opium poppies and hallucinogenicmushrooms – [...]

By Rich Rubino. The old saying goes “What’s in a name?” Actually, names can be very important in the political arena and have changed the course of American political history. In 1946, after entering a race for an open [...]

    By Jaime Ortega. A mysterious discovery was made a few months ago that could turn the theory of ancient engineering upside down. An ancient “super-megalithic” site has been found in the Siberian Mountains on accident by Russian [...]

  By Buckingham University. History will have to be rewritten – astonishing new findings reveal Amesbury is now the oldest place in the country, where history began, and is also the longest continuous settlement in the UK. Previously it [...]

By Richard Larsen. The forty-fourth Earth Day was celebrated this week in over 160 nations around the world. The notion that we are stewards of our planet, and must nurture and protect it as we utilize the resources she provides us is both [...]

Posted by Juan Cole. (By Alison Kysia)   When I teach history related to Islam or Muslims in the United States, I begin by asking students what names they associate with these terms. The list is consistent year after year: Malcolm [...]

  By Sean Guillory. In Collapse of an Empire, Yegor Gaidar, the Russian economist and 1990s shock therapist, wrote that “the identification of state grandeur with being an empire makes the adaptation to the loss of status of superpower [...]

  By Binoy Kampmark.   It is never fitting to be too morose. Sigmund Freud’s distinction between those who mourn from those who are melancholic was fundamental. To mourn is to concede that an act has happened, that it lies in [...]

  By University of Granada. The story of a Jewish convert to Catholicism, and how he revolutionized modern warfare using tactics later copied by none other than Napoleon.   To read Article: Forgotten Legends: Gonzalo De Cordoba, [...]