European colonization of the Americas led to so many deaths among indigenous populations that the global climate briefly cooled as a result, according to a shocking new study. Researchers estimate the ...

Can you identify the only Southeast Asian country that managed to escape colonization by European powers? Test your historical knowledge and learn more about this unique nation's intriguing past. - ...

Although James Cook's 18th century expeditions into the South Pacific Ocean are considered historical feats, Spanish voyages of discovery in this region preceded them. It is well-known that the ...

Ancient dogs arrived in the Americas alongside humans more than 10,000 years ago but were later wiped out by European colonization, a new study suggests. In fact, besides a few genes in some modern ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM—BBC reports that a team of scientists from University College London have determined that European colonization of the New World caused the death of so many indigenous people ...

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A new study uses fossil and archaeological archives to demonstrate that colonial era extinctions in Guadeloupe occurred on a much more massive scale than previously thought, with more than 50% of the ...

When we look back and confront the audacious moralism of Rudyard Kipling’s maxim “the white man’s burden”, we continue to be surprised that the philosophy that propped the exploitation of ...

Artificial intelligence, incubated in the American private sector, is becoming a new kind of colonial hazard, reshaping people’s understanding of empire. Traditional decolonization, with its origins ...