History

The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.

Explore presidential landmarks across the US: places where leaders lived and worked. Walk the rooms and porches where the job got heavy and history stayed.

Sicily was a key point for trade during the 11th century, earning it the moniker as the ‘crossroads of the Mediterranean’.

Explore Louisiana’s soul through 9 historic towns, where meat pies, haunted mansions, Creole streets, and Mardi Gras on horseback bring the past to life.

Explore 8 historic Mackinac Island sites that shaped Michigan’s fur trade, military history, and 19th-century culture, preserved through forts, homes, churches, and museums.

In 1889, a dispute between Italy and Ethiopia over conflicting versions of the Treaty of Wuchale led to the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

The world’s largest rainforest was long considered a virgin wilderness, but recent discoveries are challenging this view.

In the Soviet Union, political repression was a tactic to extinguish real and imaginary enemies and to eliminate political opponents.