Three students from the Chicago universities will receive fully funded graduate-level education in the United Kingdom. Their interests span aerospace technology, criminal justice reform, and diplomacy ...

Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Some theories suggest that poet and playwright William Shakespeare was not the real author of his famous works, including ...

No one saw it coming, and no one quite knows how it happened, but Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland have become a phenomenon.

Two young Arizona representatives, Yassamin Ansari and Abe Hamadeh, share similar backgrounds as children of Middle East ...

The rare Froschauer Old Testament survives in only a handful of copies worldwide, including one in Trinity College ...

Notions of linear, inevitable progress and conceptual frames that wall off modernity from what came before now seem more like ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC telling us otherwise. In marketing-speak to make you wince, the corporation ...

Folks who passionately believe in the “I may hate what you say, but I’d die for your right to say it” take on the First ...