Within the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church’s 162-year-old brick walls is a venerable American history ...

An AP investigation has found that an Israeli group whose founder strongly supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal ...

South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his ...

The Code of Hammurabi, named after the king of Babylon, stands as one of the earliest and most comprehensive written legal codes in history.

The Bible has a surprising amount to say regarding the origin of the Minoans. What are its claims, and how does this relate to archaeology?

Book of the Day: Barbara Kingsolver’s storytelling reminds readers that history is not just shaped by governments and leaders but also by the lives of ordinary families navigating unfamiliar worlds.

In 1872, British Museum curator George Smith made a discovery that would shake Victorian England's understanding of biblical history. Working late into the London evening, surrounded by fragments of ...

The letter, dating to the 16th or 17th century, contained an order from King Qashqash, a Nubian ruler that was previously ...

Members of Chicago’s first Black church rose to help enslaved people achieve their freedom because they knew theirs hung in ...

Despite the billions who attend weekly worship services globally with remarkable safety, a recent ambush on one of the nation's largest synagogues has intensified fear among clergy and worshippers ...

Following the conclusion of a 10-year loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), wooden artifacts, including ship timber, from the São José slave ...

Kabubbu was filled with pride and celebration on February 28, when the Kabubbu Development Project (KDP) unveiled 15 young, published authors; eight from Kabubbu Community Primary School and seven ...