Our northern neighbors sing about the "True North, strong and free" on Canada Day. Here's why—and when Canada became a ...

The recent announcement that the Virtual Treasury project, with its mission to recover archival records lost in the fire that ...

Sam Dalrymple's Shattered Lands is about the end of the British Empire in Asia and the many partitions it left in its wake ...

The S.S. Central America sank off the coast of South Carolina in 1857, taking with it 425 lives and a fortune in gold rush ...