In Asian countries like Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan, an intense focus on academic and professional achievement has ...

Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to Spaniards in the ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

Thailand, which translates to “land of the free,” is the only Southeast Asian nation that did not encounter European colonization. Located just above the equator, the nation is wedged into the ...