Historic status is being sought for two buildings on Terminal Island — remnants of a Japanese American fishing village on Terminal Island that was torn apart by xenophobic policies of World War II.

Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The South African city was found to be the most affordable holiday destination, with balmy 27C winter temperatures, and no ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo worked with trap superstar Bad Bunny on his new album to inform fans about Puerto Rico’s history of ...

Here's the story of the first elementary school in Rhode Island. According to the Portsmouth Historical Society, the site of ...

Image: Roy Plomley relaxes on his desert island for an Arena Special in 1981. Desert Island Discs was devised by Roy Plomley, who presented the first edition on 29 January 1942. It was recorded ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

Greenland is the world’s largest but sparsely populated island, with a population just over 56,000 ... Besides, the Greenland offer has a history that goes beyond Trump. This is not the first time ...

The political prisoners were forced to work there producing the rocks that built the Robben Island prison. To us, it’s very much a part of our history and heritage because we prisoners built the jail ...

Having long fought against the appointment of an independent monitor to reform Rikers Island, the Adams administration has ... New York City jails have a long history of abuse and negligence toward ...