During a time when the average temperature was around 46 degrees Fahrenheit, this proves that European Ice Age populations were ingenious fire ... The detailed analysis required for this important ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Providing a truly original perspective on the age of discovery, this fascinating history ... Instead, it charts a series of catastrophic failures during voyages by supposedly heroic European ...

At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one story in particular gripped the imagination of European colonialists: El Dorado, a legendary city of gold ...

The British colonists who settled a bit of land they soon named Jamestown (depicted in a 19th ... In three months of extraordinary exploration, Smith covered some 1,700 miles; met, traded and ...

It is one of many such projects that are helping make this a new age of species discovery ... great inconvenience in tropical forests”) during 11 years of collecting on the Amazon.