World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

WikiLeaks last week announced quite a data dump: 500,000 diplomatic cables from the U.S. State Department from 1978. Dubbed the "Carter Cables II," the new documents track U.S. "interactions with, and ...

Via email, Prof. Monica Green, a historian of medicine at Arizona State University who specializes in both the Global History of Health and the European Middle Ages, said that the choice of the year ...

The Treaty of Tordesillas, between Portugal and Spain (technically its component Kingdom of Castile), was negotiated by the Papacy and divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe between the two ...

Over the past 100 years, we’ve witnessed some of the most profound changes in human history. Between a pandemic, wars, technological developments, progress in civil rights, and breakthroughs in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World: A Family History is being developed as a TV project by The History Channel. If greenlit, the series, which is being developed as a ...