In 1524, astrologers warned of calamity in southern Germany: floods and failed harvests ... Only three years had passed since Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, castigated Martin Luther at Worms for ...

Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

A ship from Bordeaux carrying the plague, lands in Melcombe Regis (now Weymouth), Dorset. 1360: The Treaty of Brétigny ...

1521: Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms assembly. 1705: Queen Anne knights Isaac Newton ... 1939: The Soviet Union proposes an alliance with Britain and France to counter Nazi Germany; Stalin ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald Trump's decision to release the secret files surrounding his assassination, asking to review them before they are made public.

April 28 (Reuters) - A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther King's last civil rights campaign caught fire early on Monday morning and was ...

R. Bruce Anderson is the Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government, and Civics and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and ...