A radical initiative for its time, the Metre Convention ultimately birthed a system of measurement that would transcend ...

Elon Musk wasn’t the first to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

The New Castle Court House Museum stands majestically on Delaware Street, embodying everything a colonial courthouse should ...

It is crucial to recognize that the entanglements of Vermont’s prisons and police with the violence of U.S. imperialism are not unique to this moment.

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The two neighbours and long-time allies have each long laid claim to the island and surrounding water, where the US state of ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Hiti Pranali Water Heritage’ is a new exhibition at Patan Museum in Kathmandu to pay tribute to Nepal's heritage of sunken ...

Proposals to save British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces have been approved by Parliament after an extraordinary sitting.

How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune” by Greg Steinmetz is a captivating, well-researched biography of the legendary 19th century financier and railroad magnate, who was among the most ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...