When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers ...

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

Coffee arrived in Venice, Italy, around 1615 through trade with the Ottoman Empire ... introducing it to their colonies in Java (Indonesia) in the late 1600s. This led to the term “Java ...

ROGER McKENZIE argues that Africa's ultimate liberation depends on its ability to decolonise itself including the redrawing of its present national borders imposed by Europe ...

Since the blacks, to quote the prince, were "characterised with natural immunity against those two illnesses, France used to recruit soldiers from them for this war, especially from its colonies." ...