Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered the New ... It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North ...

Some of that is partly true, and possibly none the worse for it; few things come close to the satisfaction of a burger and ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

That was the downside of the Columbus Exchange. From the start ... and indigo plantations of the southern Atlantic coast from ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the ...

Israel's far-right finance minister has vowed to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in 2025. Bezalel Smotrich, who is in charge of settlements, said he would push the Israeli ...

That brings us to discussion of the historic event that just concluded in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress, the ...