A Facebook post from March 7 revealed that the account for the official government of Barbados put out the call to action. “Unemployed persons or those looking to earn extra income are invited to ...

A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...

Every year, the Indigenous people of Guanajuato celebrate El Señor de la Conquista, a festival of conquest. Is there more than meets the eye?

A long-lost Spanish fort, San Matías, has been rediscovered submerged in Cartagena Bay, Colombia. Built in 1567 to defend the ...

First-time visitors to New Orleans and especially the French Quarter might miss its museums. The food and the fun beckons, ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...

Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024). He ...

Two novels set in Japanese colonial period In the shadow of Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945, two ...

In 1915, a group of black Catholics met at a home on Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, across from what is today the ...

History is often thought to be fixed, immutable, but there is a plethora of new information to be learned, stories to be ...

Sligo in 2021, published There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia ...

Nelson was criticised by Black Lives Matter activists for alleged personal support of slavery, while Drake was targeted for ...