How can anything besides bones remain from so many millions of years ago?

A lot about the 2016 presidential election has been unprecedented, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen calls for recounts in some states.

Presidents have appointed National Security Advisors since 1953. Since the 1960s, they've become increasingly powerful within the Executive Branch.

With the rise of the crowd-sourced syllabus, such as the #FergusonSyllabus or #TrumpSyllabus, the digital age has expanded the scope of online learning.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary and leader who dominated his small island nation's history for half a century, is dead at 90.

Given some of the campaign rhetoric, many scientists are concerned about what a new administration might mean for scientific research.

Skeptical, self-aware interaction with digital data is the critical foundation upon which democracy may be maintained, explains media scholar Alexandra Juhasz.

She’s best known as the intrepid author of Little Women, but Louisa May Alcott was once a domestic servant.

Fake news has plenty of precedents in the history of mass media, and particularly, in the history of American journalism.