Crossing more than a third of the United States, the Mississippi River has been central to the country’s development from the ...

Women working potato fields in 1942. Where men and women worked fields together, cultures evolved that valued female labor force participation. Their descendants are wealthier today than those from ...

Peruvian food is having a moment. The cuisine of this coastal South American country has been growing in popularity — and in the number of restaurants specializing in it — for the past few years. The ...

Internationally the main intention of merging higher education institutions has often been that the establishment of larger units should result in academic and administrative economies of scale. This ...

Discover how Chicago’s unique geography has played a pivotal role in shaping its growth, economy, and cultural significance. This video explores the natural and strategic geographic advantages that ...

Given that human activities have been implicated in the vast majority of contemporary environmental problems, it might be expected that research effort into those activities and the attitudes from ...

Taiwan has an important election coming up, and we hear that relations with China is one of the main things on the minds of many voters. And though China is much bigger and more powerful than Taiwan, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - At the end of life, black kidney disease patients are more likely than white patients to continue intensive dialysis instead of choosing hospice care, according to a new ...