Ediacaran sea floor, Namibia, Southwest Africa – 543 million years ago. Credit: Museum of Natural History, University of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an historian of US History and a university administrator. Black History Month Founded by historian Carter G. Woodson as ...

In researching some historical wars I was astonished to learn the causes of some major conflicts. Most wars are fought for freedom or simply to survive, but there have been several in the history of ...

In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was long and elliptical, with wide sinuses ...

In a way, talking to UCLA’s Henry Ansgar Kelly about holidays is like experiencing a one-person production of “A Christmas Carol.” The distinguished research professor of English is a wealth of ...

The origins of Black History Month date back to 1926. The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926, when the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History declared the second week of ...

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The following is an edited extract from The Story of Birds: A New History From Their Dinosaur Origins To the Present I will never forget my first dinosaur wing. I was a college student, on my first ...