Whales have been hunted for centuries for their meat, bones, and oil. At its peak in the 1960s, the commercial whaling industry killed over 72,000 whales a year. With the creation of the ...

On December 16, 1966, these two legally binding treaties joined the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR) to ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

International history explores the political, social, economic and cultural interactions that have bound polities together across borders and eras. From the emergence of early diplomatic exchanges in ...