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This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...

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Photo courtesy of Vox Today is International Women’s Day Three hundred years ago, a highly placed public person made an ...

You start to see what history noticed — and what it didn’t. For Women’s History Month, my colleagues and I pored over hundreds of obituaries in The New York Times archives. Our new project, which we ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

By Victor Block In 1357, King Charles IV — who ruled over lands of the present-day Czech Republic — ordered that a bridge be ...