Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some ...

On Sept. 3, 2025, China celebrated the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan by staging a carefully choreographed event in which 26 world leaders were offered a podium view of Beijing's ...

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...

If globalization represents a ""new historical epoch,"" it must, as this text asserts, have its origins in a history extending much further back than the recent past. With this concise and insightful ...

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global ...