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Lost in Translation: Germany’s Fascination With the American Old West

“We have always been concerned about the sacred objects, and careful that our displays respect native peoples’ wishes for their treatment."

Asahi retraction reignites Japan debate over wartime brutality

In a four-page “re-examination” of decades of reporting about the comfort women, published over two days last week, the Asahi formally retracted 16 stories it wrote about Yoshida from 1982 to 1997.

The Millennials Are Generation Nice

Suddenly, as you may have noticed, millennials are everywhere.

First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum

Revisiting the nightmares of World War I.

Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions

“It didn’t look like America. It looked like Soweto.”

Where We Came From, State by State

Researchers have charted how Americans have moved between states since 1900. See how your state has changed.

Amsterdam to give 'Black Pete' Santa sidekick a makeover

Amsterdam authorities unveil plans to change image of 'Black Pete', the sidekick to Dutch Santa Claus.

More heritage sites destroyed in Iraq -- And ISIS brags about it!

by Christopher Jones

ISIS released another series of photographs of the demolition of shrines and mosques.

Egyptian Mummy-Making May Have Started Way Earlier Than Scientists Thought

The finding pushes back known use of the multi-ingredient ointment by about 2,000 years.

100-Year-Old Underground Cities Never Seen Before

Hidden beneath the French countryside are miles of mysterious and all but forgotten underground cities, lying in complete darkness and frozen in time.

Oxford Dictionaries Adds ‘Hot Mess,’ ‘Side Boob,’ ‘Throw Shade’

Oxford's editors have welcomed a new batch of words to their database, validating young people and making life less confusing for old people.

Jewish group urges name change for French hamlet 'Death to Jews'

"It is extremely shocking that this name has slipped under the radar in the 70 years that have passed since France was liberated from Nazism and the (pro-Nazi) Vichy regime."

All Agent Orange Ingredients Unearthed at U.S. Military Dumpsite on Okinawa

This is the first time that all three ingredients have been discovered on ex-Pentagon property on Okinawa.

400 Jewish Leaders & Scholars Denounce "Genocide" Charges Against Israel

The statement was organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C.

90 Years on, Push for ERA Ratification Continues

"Recent Supreme Court decisions have sent women's rights back to the Stone Age."

Hollywood to produce a new movie about ... George Washington!

It will be called, "The General."  

Scientists reject thesis of Nicholas Wade's book on the genetic origins of race

"We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures."

'Hitler achieved a great deal'

Member of the European Parliament sparks anger as he tells its youth wing to copy Nazi leader.

Gandhi 'Slept With Grandniece', Historian Tells UK Government

She said Gandhi's "habit of sleeping naked with young women" in order to test his commitment to a life of celibacy had been overlooked in the years since his death in 1948, but can no longer be ignored.

Increasing Number of Americans Think Watergate Was 'Just Politics'

Which of these two statements comes closest to your own point of view about Watergate — it was a very serious matter because it revealed corruption in the Nixon administration or it was just politics — the kind of thing that both parties engage in?