Andrew Blackall discusses the history of Boudica and where her final resting place might be many centuries after her death in 61AD ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

“Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform” entertains other possibilities. Its able author, Anne E. Marshall, is a professor of history at ...

Watch the full 2026 WBOY Black History Special in the player above. CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Thanks to the efforts of an ...

Professor David Abulafia, the historian, who has died aged 76, made his name as a revisionary biographer of the Holy Roman ...

The University of Kentucky’s Department of History is honoring the anniversary of the nation's founding with their ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

Beneath the gelato shops and buzzing Vespas of modern Rome lies an invisible city. This video explores the subtle remnants of ancient Rome hiding in plain sight, from a 2,000-year-old street still in ...