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 ...

March 22 has witnessed a series of defining moments in world history, spanning conflict, innovation, culture, and social upheaval. From early colonial clashes and revolutionary legislation to ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Ukrainian history and world history have been linked for thousands of years, from the spread of what would become Indo-European languages by the Yamna culture to the global consequences of today’s ...

In a new study, an international team of researchers — including UC Merced Distinguished Professor Emeritus Mark Aldenderfer — reconstructed the evolutionary history and global spread of malaria over ...

I’ve recently fallen into a bit of a rabbithole, learning about parts of history I had no idea existed. And while that’s already interesting on its own, it hits completely different when there’s a ...

“Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of Aden, in what is now Yemen, promises a new story,” said Marcus Rediker in The New York Times. Harvard historian Sven ...

The impossible story of communism. How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction? The story of communism is one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. The ...