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Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...

The Stono Rebellion, in which a slave who could read, saw a leaflet from Spanish-held Florida, promising freedom to anyone who could get there. Stono and his compatriots fail. But their mere attempt ...

The 200-year history of democracy, told through an animated time-lapsed map showing how government systems have evolved over ...

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A new apostolate brings the ‘saints back into the heart of the Church’s life' on the feast of the Veneration of the Holy ...

Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have created clear lines of division between racial groups. These ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...