The unit of money in the Spanish Empire was called the "real," from a Latin word meaning regal. In 1365, King Pedro I of ...

Trump, his billionaire buddies, and his Republican lickspittles appear to be setting up a possible massive fraud with regard ...

Before Ken Burns began his illustrious career with the stand-alone documentary film Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, followed by the ...

Continentals refers to paper currency issued by the Continental Congress in 1775 to help fund the American Revolutionary War.

I would strongly encourage everyone to purchase this little book, read it with your family, your friends, your youth group, ...

Ohio barn tells tale of Philip Gatch, a preacher who rejected slavery, tamed the state’s wilderness and helped shape its ...

Farida Nabourema, Togolese writer and human rights activist, has criticised the CFA Franc monetary system, describing the currency as ...

In this age of original intent, surely it means something that the people who wrote the document intended to deny Congress the authority to summarily punish third parties.

In 1763, one of the most consequential battles in U.S. history was fought. Largely forgotten today, reenactors keep the past alive at Bushy Run Battlefield.

Although the British Empire has long since passed into memory, for now at least, the Commonwealth seems determined to "keep calm and carry on".

Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin accidentally in 1928 after returning from vacation. Howard Florey and Ernst Chain later developed methods to purify this substance. Penicillin became a ...

Before the American Revolution, the Cherokee peoples had a trading relationship with the British, and ended up fighting on ...