AP World History

When the Vinland Map first emerged in the mid-twentieth century, it carried a promise so disruptive that it immediately set…

In the spring of 1952, archaeologists working in the caves near Qumran made a discovery that immediately set one artefact…

In the years before Soviet tanks crossed the Afghan border, Afghanistan was already a country in deep turmoil. Far from…

In the late 1920s, few men embodied wealth and modern ambition quite like Alfred Loewenstein. Born in Brussels in 1877,…

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu stands as one of the most compassionate, charismatic and courageous moral leaders of the twentieth and…

More than four thousand years ago, long before the Roman Empire rose and about the same time as the pyramids…

Jane Goodall did not set out to challenge the foundations of modern science. She did not arrive in Africa armed…

On a warm early-summer weekend in 1960, four teenagers from the Helsinki area did what teenagers everywhere have done for…

Some battles decide the fate of armies, others shape the destiny of nations. But occasionally, one changes the balance of…

Some battles define wars, and others redefine what war even is. Verdun was the latter. When the German army launched…