Since the late 18th century, small colonies of bats have guarded the books in the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in central Portugal. The library contains 60,000 books that are all ...

When the 18th century church planter, evangelist and foreign missionary George Liele was imprisoned in Jamaica, he spread the ...

Quantum Theatre’s new production will shine a light on a historical rebel you won’t find in textbooks. Benjamin Lay was an ...

Stanford University Libraries (SUL) has assumed permanent stewardship of the California Historical Society Collection (CHS), ...

Blending hip-hop, jazz and R&B, and featuring non-white actors as the founding fathers and other real-life historical figures, it's the story of Alexander Hamilton - an immigrant orphan who became the ...

City authors are placing their protagonists in the Christian suburbs they grew up in. We asked them what to check out in ...

Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the Moberly-Jourdain incident.

In a manner not unlike Forrest Gump, beer meets famous Irish characters through history, from St Brigid to Daniel O’Connell ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of ...

Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated ...