World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

Explore 25 historical paradoxes that changed the world forever. Discover how contradictions and unintended consequences ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. WikiLeaks last week announced quite a data dump: 500,000 diplomatic ...

Maps, says Great Maps author and historian Jerry Brotton, are more than a geographic object, a tool to get us from point A to B. From the ancient Greeks to Google Earth, all human cultures have had an ...

What if you could travel through time and watch history unfold, one era at a time? With TimeMap.org, you can do just that—no time machine required. This interactive history map lets you dive into the ...

The Treaty of Tordesillas, between Portugal and Spain (technically its component Kingdom of Castile), was negotiated by the Papacy and divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe between the two ...

How does the United States of America match up with all these behemoths? The United States is certainly the world’s most powerful nation ever, militarily speaking. It combines the British ingenuity ...