Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Young Muslims gather around the green and white FLN rebel flags in Diar el Mahcoul, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria, ignoring ...

Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna. Accompanying DVD-ROM contains photographs, videorecordings, and audio recordings to illustrate the ...

In what the publisher describes as “an original history of race-making, belonging and rights,” Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of “métis,” referring to the multiracial children ...

Beneath the dust of colonial archives lies another Africa—one painted in ochre and song, where healers crossed gender and love itself remade the world. Long before Victorian law or missionary decree, ...

Blood and words: writing history with (and about) vampire stories -- Historicizing rumor and gossip -- "Bandages on your mouth": the experience of colonial medicine in East and Central Africa -- "Why ...

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...

Georg Hegel in his famous text, "The Philosophy of History," wrote that Africa is “no historical part of the world; it has no movement of development to exhibit…What we properly understand by Africa, ...

Book of the Day: Barbara Kingsolver’s storytelling reminds readers that history is not just shaped by governments and leaders but also by the lives of ordinary families navigating unfamiliar worlds.

Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...

Linguists say reaction to Irish TD’s remarks reflects shared regional English roots and enduring impact of empire ...