Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...

After centuries of speculation, scientists have officially confirmed the existence of Zealandia, an enormous submerged continent that was lost to history for nearly 400 years. Spanning an incredible 1 ...

There is lot fuzz about the discovery of a slab of granite embedded into basaltic rocks of the oceanic crust - granite is a rock typical of continental crust (including island arcs), which prompted ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...

Historians rethink North America before colonization, American racial divisions over two centuries and a Persian Empire under steady duress. By Thomas E. Ricks Some wars grind on for centuries, making ...