An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world ...
Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...
Consider the map on this page ... Decades later, both France and Spain had come to view the Jesuits as a threat to their ...
When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane University in New Orleans, was looking at random data online ... they provided good data for Auld-Thomas and his colleagues to create a topographic map ...
Spain’s royals, prime minister and other politicians were greeted by crowds hurling mud and debris on Sunday when they tried ...
Just a few years after Texas won its independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto in April of 1836, a young doctor from Delaware took ...