Many Americans, and especially well-to-do, highly educated ones who live in cities like New York, view their country as something to be ashamed of.

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That comforting cup of ‘cha’ you hold in your hand hides a bitter history of colonial theft, exploitation and ongoing injustice in South Asia’s tea plantations ...

From Rome to the Ottomans, the Mongols to the British, this video breaks down how the world’s greatest empires rose and why ...

The Persian Empire, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, became one of history’s most powerful and influential empires. At its height, it spanned three continents,covering parts of ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP ...

With over $170 billion allocated through Trump’s megabill, we are witnessing the creation of a vast, permanent enforcement ...

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An expert believes that he has rediscovered the lost Byzantine settlement of Tharais in southern Jordan. Archaeologist ...

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The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...