John Gould,the father of the science of ornithology,may not have achieved the same fame and fortune without the help of those often relegated to footnotes in history;his wife Elizabeth and Indigenous Australians.
Historian Patricia E. Millen went down a rabbit hole in search of a “lost” painting of George Washington. Then she hit gold.
The bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz is coming to the screen. And the woman adapting it expects controversy to follow.
What would it take to atone for the centuries of slavery and generations of systemic racism that continue to keep black Americans on the bottom rungs of society?
In 1983,a beautiful piece of Melbourne history came from the basement of the State Library. The cyclorama,so rare nobody knew what to do with it,was 33 metres long and 5 metres deep and depicted life in Melbourne in 1841.
The sunken room was probably built in the second century,when Leicester was the Roman town Ratae Corieltavorum.
Archaeologists also found a Roman-era stone slab with demotic and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The finders,two metal-detecting enthusiasts from Shark Bay on the north-west coast,will auction their “world treasure” with a reserve price of $100,000.
Buried in an unmarked grave,John Joseph was the first person tried and acquitted for the Eureka Rebellion,and has been honoured by US ambassador Caroline Kennedy in Bendigo.
The farmworker who became a French Resistance fighter was celebrated internationally as ‘The Girl Partisan of Chartres’.
Some Antakya residents complain of neglect from a central government busy with helping other provinces where it has a stronger voting base.