Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United ...

I fear German power less than German inaction,” declared Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, in 2011, during Europe’s financial crisis. It was a remarkable statement coming from a Polish ...

From California to Kansas, these communities built by Northern European settlers and sustained by their descendants offer ...

For over a century and a half, life expectancy has steadily increased in the wealthiest countries. Spectacular climbs in ...

You tend to hear about the BMW 2002, the E9 coupes, or the later M cars when people talk about the brand’s golden years, but the 1965 BMW 1800 quietly set that story in motion. It mixed family-sedan ...

In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all united to promote the new smallpox vaccine, which led to a remarkably quick elimination of the disea ...

The year of 1850, the mill at what became Mauston was called Hewlett's Mill and consisted of less than a dozen buildings or establishments. These structures were an extension of Hewlett's Mill. The ...

Long before petrol engines dominated the roads, electric vehicles quietly led the way. Inventors imagined silent, clean transport, proof that the EV dream began nearly two centuries ago. But how did ...

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance of the Black Plague across Europe in the 14th century, in a pandemic that killed tens of millions of people. New ...

A recent donation to the Cape Girardeau Research Center, State Historical Society of Missouri provided interesting and valuable additions to our Southeast Missouri Medical Society Collection. Included ...

The spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the 6th century CE, Slavic groups began to appear in the written records of ...

Editor's note: A section about the oldest public high school has been altered due to an inaccurate source. We apologize for the error. Did you know Mississippi has ...