First given as gifts to arriving explorers, it didn’t take long for colonizers to demand hammocks as tribute. In A Nutshell ...

Follow the story of how beavers have earned their role as New York's state mammal by contributing to the economy and ...

Caged in enclosures in Madrid's Retiro Park, they were described as 'strange', 'disfigured', 'brutal' and 'subhuman'.

The German holiday custom came to Virginia in 1842 when Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, a law professor at William & Mary, offered a new college professor a home.

Production designer Sam Bader tells AD how the religious group’s villages and beautifully crafted furniture were recreated ...

Dawn Staley and the No. 3 South Carolina women’s basketball team are in the middle of a holiday break. The Gamecocks are 12-1 ...

For many Indians, Christmas cake feels timeless, arriving every December, dense with fruit, spice, and memory. It shows up on ...

Archaeologists from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, led by anthropology professor Julia King, discovered thousands of Indigenous artifacts at Fones Cliffs along Virginia’s Rappahannock River, ...

Once Bengal’s political heart, Murshidabad preserves its imperial past through Hazarduari Palace and fading havelis that ...

Amin and the Ugandan dictator who succeeded him, Yoweri Museveni, are the twin subjects of a new book, Slow Poison, an extraordinary work of postcolonial history by the eminent Ugandan American ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules linked to life. These sulfur-rich compounds, including certain amino acids, ...

Thanksgiving has always carried far more meaning than the schoolbook version of the 1621 Plymouth gathering suggests. While the simplicity of “Pilgrims and Indians breaking bread” carries a valuable ...