On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Czar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

In the mid-seventh century, two people were laid to rest on opposite ends of England’s southern coast. One was an 11- to 13-year-old girl buried near a Kentish royal centre. The other, a young man in ...

Ciara, the Grammy-winning singer, has made history by becoming one of the first to receive Beninese citizenship through a ...

They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s how a group of persistent scientists unlocked the secrets to bringing them ...

The promise of democratic renewal has been eclipsed by division, persecution, and a troubling tolerance for extremism, ...