The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, ...

We located a lost Indian Wars era Fort near El Paso in the Desert of West Texas using metal detectors. This site was known as Fort Stockton and was garrisoned by Buffalo Soldiers protecting stage ...

Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the Moberly-Jourdain incident.

As Sardar KM Panikkar explained, India’s land-based invaders ultimately became natives. Its colonisers came by the sea—and they were successful because Indian rulers ignored the waters.

The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of ...

Muzzamil Hussain was in grade school when the first bombs fell on the playground outside of his classroom in Kargil, a mountain city in the Indian province ... with mountain history, I needed ...

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate American greatness and to recognize those who have made contributions ...

What's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions about the history, people ... “Westport was full of Indians, whose little ...

And, as with much of Westport’s history, there are conflicting reports ... he concluded that John Campbell, a government Indian agent who had come to the region in 1827, was the “original ...