The Dallas News invites readers to examine a new batch of documents relating to John F. Kennedy.

The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey?where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages.

All the Royal Society's journals are free for two months including scientific classics going back to 1665.

The Spanish certainly brought war and disease to the new world - but biggest killer of the Aztecs may have been a local disease.

While sailors plied the Seven Seas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, little did they know that their ships' logs would one day help scientists to reconstruct the history of the Earth's magnetic field.

These conversations with some of the most creative thinkers of the last half-century are a primary resource available to students, teachers, researchers, archivists, librarians, historians, journalists and all who are interested in history, biography, media, communications, news, and public affairs.

On 31 December, the UK will make a payment of about $83m (?45.5m) to the US and so discharge the last of its loans from World War II from its transatlantic ally. This article discusses the tremendous social and economic consequences of the war, and how we're all still very much affected by it.

A researcher from Darwin, Australia, says he believes that many works attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach were actually written by the composer's second wife.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

Dentistry, as a profession, may have been practiced as many as 9000 years ago, in Pakistan. Given the types of drills used, opium farmers in the area might have had steady business...

A new study provides support to theorists who believe it took early farmer a long time to produce a domestic wheat plant that resembles what we have today. Indeed, it may have taken a millennium.