See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. WikiLeaks last week announced quite a data dump: 500,000 diplomatic ...

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

Over the past 100 years, we’ve witnessed some of the most profound changes in human history. Between a pandemic, wars, technological developments, progress in civil rights, and breakthroughs in ...

It was known as “The Great War”—a land, air and sea conflict so terrible, it left over 8 million military personnel and 6.6 million civilians dead. Nearly 60 percent of those who fought died. Even ...

The Treaty of Tordesillas, between Portugal and Spain (technically its component Kingdom of Castile), was negotiated by the Papacy and divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe between the two ...

A wave of misleading revisionism has become epidemic in both autocracies and democracies. It has been notably effective — and contagious. By Max Fisher In Russia, an organization dedicated to ...