Nonetheless, President Xi keeps promising the Chinese people that Taiwan ... watershed akin to the end of World War II or the close of the Cold War, when an old order fails with utter finality ...

A researcher mined historical records and came up with two more people potentially buried there in 1803: a man identified as Sam and a 16-year-old girl named Deyon who was publicly hanged after ...

In 4000 B.C. the people of the Great Lakes region were hammering tools out of native copper. By the time of Columbus the gold work of cultures from Peru to Mexico rivaled the best in the Old World ...

When old orders collapse, people often turn to strongmen, radical ideologies and reactionary forces for answers. This is not new—the 1920s and 1930s saw the collapse of post–World War I democratic ...