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Secessionist Movements In America Refuse To Die

Of course none of the movements are even close to convincing Washington to let them hold a Scottish-like referendum.

A Civil War soldier is getting the Medal of Honor

A 94-year-old woman is responsible.

What 2014 Elections Can Tell Us About the 2016 Ones: Not So Much

Historically, midterm results, which are typically unfavorable to the president’s party, tell us relatively little about the coming presidential election.

No one can read this book, but perhaps now that it’s online someone will figure out how.

It’s the Medieval Voynich Manuscript.

The Fourth Man: Who Prompted the Fall of the Berlin Wall?

We can now reveal whodunit.

There Are 100 Women in Congress for the First Time Ever

The gender breakdown of the next Congress is still to be determined, but a major milestone was reached Tuesday night: For the first time in American history, the number of women sitting in Congress will hit triple digits.

How The 2014 Midterm Elections Made History

The GOP made much history, electing younger, more diverse candidates to a legislative body that has historically been dominated by older, white men.

British Museum releases scans of artefacts to let you 3D print your own museum at home

Working in collaboration with Sketchfab, an online platform that lets users share and download 3D scans, the British Museum has created 14 3D models of busts, statues and sarcophagi from its collection for anyone to download and print at home.

New study: Judicial nominations have always been subject to partisanship

by Michael J. Gerhardt and Michael Ashley Stein

There never was a Golden Age.  These nominations were always political.

North Carolina is starting to make reparations payments to the victims of sterilization

Forty years later, only one state is making reparations for thousands of forced sterilizations.

Japan's Kamikaze Winds, the Stuff of Legend, May Have Been Real

Storms in 1200s could have helped thwart attacks by Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan's fleets, a study of lake sediments finds.

25 years after fall of the Berlin Wall, divisions in Germany remain

6 in 10 Germans were in favour of looking ahead rather than reflecting on German Democratic Republic history

Children from lost civilisation 'helped build' geoglyph some 6,000 years ago

Experts have been examining the giant moose-shaped stone structure since it was discovered in 2011 and have now confirmed it is the world's oldest.

6 IN 10 Americans remember where they were when the Berlin Wall fell

Berlin Wall’s fall marked the end of the Cold War for the American public

This is how far we've come on gay issues in 50 years

by KC Johnson

50 years ago a tape recording caught LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover discussing the possibility a cabinet secretary was gay. 

Gate at Dachau Concentration Camp With Nazi Slogan Is Stolen

A heavy metal gate bearing the Nazis’ infamous concentration camp slogan, “Arbeit Macht Frei,” (Work Sets You Free), was stolen under cover of darkness on the weekend from the memorial site at the old Nazi camp of Dachau.

He helped write the Bill of Rights. Now his slave quarters will be renovated.

The repairs will be paid for by a donation of $10,000,000 to the home of James Madison.

Paying the price of war: Britain makes good on historic debts

Debts from bonds issued in 1927 by Winston Churchill going back to the South Sea Bubble, Napoleonic and Crimean wars.

Town Makes the Horrifying Discovery That It's Built Out of Jewish Tombstones

More than 450 Jewish gravestones have been discovered in the foundations of houses that have been demolished to make way for a new supermarket.

Pharaoh Thutmosis-era temple found by accident in Egypt

A 3,400-year-old underwater temple from the time of Pharaoh Thutmosis III, one of Egypt’s greatest warrior kings, has been uncovered near Cairo