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Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning.

The Slave Dwelling Project in South Carolina highlights the violent resistance of freedom-seeking enslaved Blacks.

The American Indian Studies Program exists to assist with curricular requirements on American Indian history

In a famous example of ‘literary inquisition’ in Chinese history, more than 1,000 people were punished for the publication of one book, including the author’s family, printers and buyers.

In “Horizons,” a historian of science highlights the crucial achievements of non-Western scientists and thinkers.

In 431 BCE the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered one of the most influential speeches of all time, his Epitaphios or Funeral Oration.

Experts from the Natural History Museum, The Francis Crick Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena have joined together to untangle the different meanings of ancestry in the evolution of our species Homo sapiens.

Lawmakers in at least five states filed bills that threaten to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about slavery, racism and U.S. history.

The worst massacre aimed at Latinos in American history happened in my hometown, to my people.

The author’s popular Little House books sought to challenge the way many Americans saw their country’s history, with deeply mixed results.

Voice-controlled devices like the Amazon Echo are here to stay, so why not embrace them in the classroom to make history come alive? Studyi...

The HISTORY Channel - Geschichte erleben! The HISTORY Channel ist der deutschsprachige Pay-TV-Sender für spannende Dokumentationen und macht die Faszination von Menschen und Ereignissen täglich greifbar!

I usually work this theme on Minecraft but this year we did something different! I asked my Science colleague Andreia Salgueiro, if she was interested in this project and she was! We both wanted to…

“Reading Through History” has a large selection of short, well-done videos about U.S. and World History. Importantly, the audio narration is slow (with accurate closed-captions), which …

‎Waco History is a free app that puts the history of Waco and McLennan County at your fingertips. Find interesting people, places, and events in Waco’s history, and even take tours of the city and region. Each point on the interactive GPS-enabled map includes historical information about the site alo…