Back in Nuuk, Lynge turns to the map once more to reflect on how Greenland became caught up in a much bigger game. He refers to the 1946 attempt by the US to buy Greenland from Denmark, under which ...

Such territorial acquisitions were a relatively common practice in the age of overseas empires, but are nearly unheard of ...

Novarupta is a young volcano formed just over a century ago in June 1912. It was the 20th century’s most voluminous eruption and it put the Katmai region on the world map. Novarupta is ... in Alaska ...

Archaeologists excavating the Almalyk-dere necropolis in Crimea recently uncovered a trove of gold and silver jewelry in ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

In the 19th century, Wallace’s observations were striking ... His employers were usually wealthy landlords who hired him to map their estates to determine how much their tenant farmers owed ...

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...

These modern concerns bear a striking resemblance to Butler's 19th-century call for pausing mechanical progress. Even if machines never become truly intelligent, Butler's predictions about our ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

President-elect Donald Trump this week decided to revive 19th-century imperialism. In a single news conference, he pondered making Canada a state and acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal by ...

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles to assert its identity. By Constant ...

But their origins stretch back even further, to the earliest years of the United States of America in the late 18th century. The current 12th Duke of Atholl is a South Africa-based businessman who ...