Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an historian of US History and a university administrator. Black History Month Founded by historian Carter G. Woodson as “Negro History Week” in February 1926 as a way to ...

Most people and schools honor Black History Month each February -- but do you know the history of Black History Month itself? How did Black History Month start? The origins of Black History Month date back to February 1926 when Carter G. Woodson came up ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French occupation of Naples did not introduce syphilis to this world, it created the perfect storm that shaped the perception of this disease and its origins for centuries to come.

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,

A new, non-peer-reviewed report argues that Egypt’s Great Pyramid may be far older than the familiar Old Kingdom timeline, proposing an age in the order of tens of thousands of years. The claim hinges on an “erosion clock” created by the removal of the pyramid’s casing stones in the medieval period,