Before the age of the internet, you likely never noticed some of the keyboard symbols that you now use all the time. Most of us still don’t know the actual history behind these now-ubiquitous symbols, ...

The Confederate Flag atop a monument in front of South Carolina's Capitol has come down, following weeks of impassioned debate in that state about history, symbols, race and how badly this country ...

The 20th century gave us works that defied traditions across the arts: for instance, Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 The Rite of Spring, a ballet whose setting, in a pagan world, and enactment of human ...

Ancient figurines carved from animal bones hint at a lost chapter of human history 40,000 years ago. Archaeologists analyzing more than 3,000 etchings on 260 prehistoric relics have uncovered one of ...