This book explores what people in various cultures have done to fit in, stick out or measure up. It helps us put beauty into perspective so we can stop feeling so controlled and influenced by it.

A review of a book by Leon Walter Tillage about the life of an ordinary man who went through great struggles and tragedies only because of the color of his skin.

Archaeologists have found small painted handprints and pictures that might be the Stone Age’s version of graffiti — or doodling!

April 24 symbolizes the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, which destroyed 1.5 million Armenians, as well as hundreds of thousands of Assyrians and Pontic Greeks.

The origins of International Women’s Day, March 8.

At Flushing International High School in Queens, NY students learned about hip hop history – the days when “the high was creativity rather than drugs,” said music teacher Beth Mabon-Grass. Students also wrote their own raps.

Clue: As a medical student, I traveled around Latin America and saw the conditions of the poor. I wrote a book about the trip and it became a movie in 2004 called The Motorcycle Diaries. Who am I?

The true history of Thanksgiving shows some embarrassing facts. The very same Pilgrims who shared the “first” Thanksgiving later took over Native American lands, robbed them of all of their valuables, enslaved many young Native Americans, and then killed the rest.

Each fall New York City celebrates the NYC marathon, which, with over 37,000 runners, is the largest marathon in the world. According to legend, in ancient Greece a soldier ran this distance from the city of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon.

The history of how the basket and the ball came to be basketball.