Tag Archives: History

At its centre - physically and intellectually - is Durga, the supremely powerful goddess.

Assessing two books that take opposite views of whether the truth has been told about what happened on 9/11.

Who'd have thought a 21st-century crowd could be listening so intently to a 12th-century philosophical debate that a solitary ringtone would sound like a thunderclap?

Returning the music to New Orleans is part of returning the soul to the city.

Scientists are discovering more and more about the tricks she has up her sleeve.

This first-hand tale of torture by French troops during the Algerian war for independence sadly remains all too relevant today.

“Journalism, they say, is the first draft of history. I consider oral history its second draft" - Bill Katovsky

Descendants of the author of The Wizard of Oz to apologize for editorials Baum wrote at the time of Wounded Knee.

The world of genealogy holds more surprises at which you could shake a family tree.

The species that doesn't evolve risks extinction.