Thanksgiving is an American federal holiday celebrated on the last Thursday in November. It began as an autumn harvest festival organized by the English ...

The Great Wall of China was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1987 even though large portions of it lie in ruins or are no longer ...

China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, boasting over four thousand years of history. Granted, many of those years were spent as a ...

Ancient Egypt is one of the civilizations that survived the longest in history. While not always actually controlled by the Egyptian state, there is ...

Many of the inventions and developments that make up our modern world have their origin in ancient Greece. But when exactly? Here is a timeline of all of ...

Unlike other classical civilization timelines, most events in Roman history are perfectly dated. This is partly due to the passion the Romans had for ...

Athenian democracy was the first known democracy in the world. Despite Aristotle alluding to the fact that Athens wasn’t the only city that had adopted a ...

People often cite the ancient Greeks as the original inventors of democracy and the United States as the modern-day country that re-established and ...

Throughout history, women have made their mark by sharing their skills, talent, courage, and strength whenever they are needed. This was not easy to do, ...

The Second Indochina War, known popularly as the Vietnam War, lasted two decades (1955-1975), and its casualties numbered in the millions. Being a ...

The Second World War is still etched into the memories of older generations, but it has become such a fundamental part of our collective memory that it ...

Many western societies today view themselves as “descendants” of ancient Rome in one way or another, be it literally, culturally, or linguistically. And ...