From Sunda Kelapa to Batavia to modern-day Jakarta, explore how Indonesia’s capital has evolved through the centuries — in ...

When Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in 1942, Jonathan Wainwright and his forces remained behind to face the Japanese.

Over time, I have gotten to know many Palestinians. Like Jewish people I’ve known, they tend to be bright, inquisitive, and ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book Politische Geographie (Political ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the map to justify the United States entering World War II—but as one historian told ...

In Effingham’s Oak Ridge Cemetery, there are two very simple grave markers indicating the burial place of a woman who was a major figure in women’s history. Her name was Ada Kepley. Reflections of her ...

Businessman Jeremy Hosking withdrew his bid to buy Rum's Kinloch Castle two years ago, blaming Scottish Greens co-leader ...

The White House has heralded Star Wars Day with an eye-catching AI-generated ... We don’t just defend the world. We protect the future. “Across every galaxy—known and unknown—no ...

The Star Wars fan who grew up watching the franchise and has a particular fondness for movie Return of the Jedi, took about three to four hours to create each miniature depiction, of which there ...