Annalee Newitz is the author of “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.” But the historical record shows that reports of the end times always turned out to be wrong. “Barbarians” didn’t ...

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

In April, the American public received two assessments of what went wrong with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan twenty months earlier. The White House blamed the previous administration for the ...

It’s amazing, isn’t it? Our blue planet. The only planet in the solar system that’s surface is covered in liquid water. But less than that 1% of it that is ...

Celebrating a history of over 30 years, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at CU Boulder brings global diversity to the curriculum and the Boulder campus. Our department’s focus on a ...