Like many titles and place names given during the era of colonization, the Mount Everest name gave zero recognition to the title used by locals. Tibetans had, for centuries, called the peak Chomolunga ...

The concept of ‘Asian Americans,’ created in the 1960s by student activists as a way to move past denigrating labels, is ...

The first was the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution, recognized American independence and set the ...

By the middle of the 19th century ... second half of the 20th century. In California, a superlative example was the City of Santa Monica. Fortunate in its geography and perched on palisading ...

One crowning touch was a conversation with the Turkmen director general for motor roads, who confessed that he used OpenStreetMap data on his smartphone to navigate, and another was a request from the ...

In his latest video dispatch, our writer explains the naming debate surrounding the world’s highest peak, which has three ...

Municipal elections were far different in the Spanish colonial period. In 1985, the late Glenn Anthony May, a historian of the Philippines, teased the civic ritual from 19th-century archival documents ...

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

By the mid-19th century, the push for standardization had become increasingly urgent. Scientific discovery was accelerating, global trade was booming and industrial projects were growing in scale ...