For more than 800 years, the samurai helped to lay the foundations of Japan's culture. Their reverence for honor, duty, and service remains ingrained in Japanese society even today. Together with ...

The cowrie is the most widely and longest used currency in history. 1,000 BC: First Metal Money and Coins Bronze and Copper cowrie imitations were manufactured by China at the end of the Stone Age ...

PBS’ “Nova” series examines the phenomenon of UFOs. A panel recently spoke with members of the media about the show, which is centered around a subject that has the whole world either ...

Shows like “Nova,” PBS NewsHour,” and “Science Friday ... currently happening in our state but also connect us to our history as we hear about what happened many years ago.

“I think I found out that I was Jewish in my late 20s. I didn’t know,” Morissette tells host and Harvard University history professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in the episode, a snippet of which ...