Ninety-two years ago, the American Goldfinch became Iowa’s state bird. Today, Iowans are calling for a state horse, fish and ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

The Roman bridge in Talavera de la Reina, Spain, dating back to the Middle Ages, has been destroyed due to severe weather ...

On March 24, 2015, a Germanwings plane carrying 150 people, including German high school students, crashed in the French Alps ...

Four-leaf clovers, aside from being considered good luck, are said to be symbols of faith, love, hope and good fortune.

A second school in the Affton School District was vandalized with racist graffiti overnight, and police think the two incidents may be related. In a message to the school community, Superintendent ...

Four-leaf clovers have long been a symbol of good luck, likely stemming from the Celts who believed that they were magical ...

It was the latest craze with kids of all ages desperately wanting to be seen prancing around with a 40 oz bottle in their little hands. It became a symbol of popularity in middle schools — and ...

In regard to income, especially coupled with our society's wildly inequitable distribution of wealth, there are certainly things the middle class think are status symbols that mean nothing to the ...

This commentary is an excerpt taken from a new CSIS Middle East Program report, The Thirst for Power: Overcoming the Politics of Water in the Middle East. The Middle East is no stranger to water ...