Explore the growth of New York City from its origins as the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to the sprawling metropolis of ...

Philadelphia's rich narrative isn't solely tied to its founding fathers' legacy; it also encompasses the short-lived Swedish colony of Nya Sverige. This settlement, which lasted seventeen years, ...

Amsterdam’s historical significance for global capitalism is hard to overstate. It created the stock market, the tulip bubble and a mega-corporation so big it had its own money, army and colony.

Located in Aurora, approximately 37 miles west of Chicago, Temple B’nai Israel serves Illinois’s second-largest city. The ...

Since U.S. Special Forces captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in January, a steady stream of American officials ...

The Netherlands was originally part of various medieval states before coming under Spanish rule in the Middle Ages. In the ...