Today in History for Nov. 30: In 1667, Irish writer and satirist Jonathan Swift was born. In 1782, a preliminary peace treaty ending the American War of Independence was signed between Britain and the ...

Today in History for Dec. 3: In 1170, Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, returned to England after six years of exile in France. He would be martyred on Dec. 29 -- killed by soldiers sent by his ...

Dr. Emily Grafton — professor at the University of Regina and author of the newly released book Divided Power: How Federalism ...

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of ...