U.S. History
All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.
World History
History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world’s major wars.
Eras & Ages
From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history’s biggest chapters.
Culture & Tradition
The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world.
Science & Innovation
The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
Genetic analysis helps to decipher the mysteries of human evolution.
Clovis points found on the east coast of the U.S. challenge the traditional theory that the Clovis people migrated to North-America via the Bering land bridge.
Did Cro Magnons, the ancestors of early humans, cause the Neanderthal extinction?
Paleonthropologists attempt to explain the fossil evidence of cannibalism among the Neanderthals.
DNA evidence may prove whether Cro Magnon and Neanderthal interbreeding was possible and what traces might be left in the genome of modern humans.