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After wrapping up Tuesday night's economics-oriented debate at Dartmouth, Rick Perry stopped by the school's Beta Theta Pi fraternity chapter to deliver a little history lesson about the American ...

‘Catholics in the New World: A Selection of 16th-18th Century Texts’ and ‘Religious Liberty and the Founding of America’ Reviews In honor of the Pope’s visit, two exhibitions examine the ...

A rare 16th century book lives on thanks to hard work by a librarian at Michigan State University. MSU has held the copy of Ptolemy’s “Geographia” since it was donated to the university in ...

A 16th century globe depicting the world before Australia had even been “discovered” could be the oldest ever to come to auction.. The “priceless” artifact – which features sea monsters ...

Using a new algorithm, geneticists uncovered the pathogen that could have caused a massive epidemic in the Aztec empire: Salmonella bacteria. Christopher Intagliata reports.