While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal detachment from the administration of American colonies, King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the ...

George Emil Palade, universally hailed as the founder of modern cell biology for his many discoveries and insights into the structure and function of eukaryotic cells, died on 7 October at the age of ...

George Catlin set out to reach "every tribe of Indians on the Continent of North America," and to produce "faithful portraits...views of their villages, games, &c." His Sioux Encamped on the Upper ...

For Americans, the world seemed to turn upside down in 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April. In response, race riots broke out in some 125 cities across the nation; the riot in ...