When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

D.C.’s unique status may come down to a secret meeting between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

Barcelona recorded its hottest month of June since records started over a century ago, Spain’s national weather service said ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

TALLAHASSEE - America's first president is in the Florida Capitol Building. Indeed, a statue of George Washington will be on ...

From Montezuma’s fall to the discovery of the Higgs boson, this week in history spans Aztec tragedy, American independence, ...