history

Our guest today is anthropologist Jennifer Raff, here to discuss her new book 'Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas', the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were and how hey got here.

The history of cooking and food often becomes closely intertwined with the questions of how to prepare and eat and socialize.

For today's episode, host Tammy Proctor travels across the Atlantic to focus on a mainstay of British life, fish and chips.

In 1928, Elmer Cook, a rancher in Hagerman, Idaho, found fossilized bones belonging to ancestors of the modern horse. They were 3 ½ million years old.

We all dream, but why? And what do our dreams reveal about our waking lives? Since the beginning of human history, dreams have played a pivotal role in…

This week we're talking about fatigue. And no, it's not the same as being tired. Despite it being the top complaint among people with chronic conditions…

“Sleeper Agent” is the story of the only Soviet military spy to have full security clearance in America’s top-secret project to build the first atomic…

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, is one of the first sources Google provides for many different searches. From notable figures to new technology,…

May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable…

“Northern Indigenous Crees were native to Montana and the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line,…