This week scientists announced that the eruption of Okmok, a volcano located in Alaska, likely contributed to the fall of the Roman Republic in 43 B.C. But that's only one example of volcanoes ...

Over the past 100 years, some of the most profound events in human history have occurred including societal and political change, war and discoveries.

But at this beginning of history, this critical juncture in the human story, it will take daring and imagination to meet the various challenges ahead. Contrary to what Fukuyama foresaw, the political ...

True to form, his new book, The Origins of Political Order (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), doesn’t limit itself to the whole of human history.

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 6,000-year-old skeletons in Colombia that belonged to a mysterious group of people that could rewrite human history.

Human History and the Hunger for Land From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.

But they do insist that human history, no less than natural history, is partly explicable by elemental forces and processes.

The discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of human history because it was the first proof of the existence of some of our closest relatives.