The introduction of potatoes to France in the late 16th century sparked significant resistance before becoming a staple of ...

Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...

As Christianity spread, it carried Catherine of Siena’s legacy to the Americas. Her asceticism inspired Rose of Lima, Kateri ...

America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day St. Augustine, Florida. Spanish colonial records mentioned a celebration for Saint Patrick in 1600 and ...

Hungary's only fully excavated Renaissance castle is set to be rebuilt near Nagykanizsa, with plans calling for a 15-year, ...

America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish ... Americas in the 16th century by way of Richard Arthur, a priest in St. Augustine and an Irish soldier, The ...

Belize had been part of the Mayan civilisation before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century; the arrival ... a mixture of labourers, former soldiers and sailors, smugglers, one-time ...

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is Sheelah’s Day, in commemoration of the woman who many believe to have been Patrick’s wife. According to Shane Lehane, a folklorist at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more ...