The difference between coca leaves and cocaine, Harvard's Lester Grinspoon once quipped, is the difference between traveling by donkey and jet plane. A clever line, but one that misses an essential ...

Fans have been waiting a long time for a new entry in the Civilization franchise, with Civilization 6 having arrived the better part of a decade ago. But that wait is almost over. Developer Firaxis ...

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies is a documentary that looks into the world of exploitation films, particularly those from the 1950s and 60s. These were low-budget, outrageous movies ...

Researchers at Harvard University and Montana Technological University speculated that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could be living among humans secretly on Earth. In a new ...

A recent archaeological discovery of an undisclosed stash of gold coins is challenging what we once knew about historical warfare. Providing fresh insights into ancient military strategies, this ...

Picture a cardboard box packed with envelopes, swabs, a comb, nail clippers - you know, stuff you could find in almost any drug store. Well, this box, as mundane as it sounds, represented a revolution ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For the first time in the game’s 30-year history, leaders and civilizations can be chosen independently of one ...

The brand new six-part history docuseries, Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols, premieres on National Geographic Thursday, May 1 at 9/8c. The new National Geographic docuseries brings to ...

Mike Stephen sits down with Kevin M. Schultz, chair of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of a new book called Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including ...

Civilization 7 features some of the most significant gameplay changes the long-running strategy series has ever seen. Chief among them is the ability to, for the first time, mix leaders with civs they ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...