Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some historical events are self-evidently a pretty big deal. The kind of happenings you don’t need context and a broad ...

Economic historians agree that the onset of the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in human history, comparable only to the adoption of agriculture with respect to material advancement.

• The Plough and the Stars, Irish writer Seán O’Casey’s four-act play about the 1916 Easter Rising, opens at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on February 8. The play upsets some audience members and ...

Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made ...