Oftentimes, history books completely overlook or sanitize uncomfortable truths from history... Warning: This post contains ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

In a report released on Tuesday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global hunger monitor, confirmed that famine is present in at least five areas of Sudan, including North ...

A remote Scottish island with a population of precisely zero is seeking a new manager – and most of your company will be the local wildlife.

A famously uninhabited island is looking for two people to run a coffee shop there – but you certainly won’t be without customers to serve. Great Blasket Island, just off the coast of Dunquin, Ireland ...

Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The bleak discoveries of the Irish Famine dead give an insight into the lives of these 14 people from the mid-1800s. The analysis of the bones of Irish immigrants, from the Famine times ...

Buying books is a thrill, but traditional ink-and-paper quickly gobbles up space on your shelves. Fortunately, modern bookworms have come up with modern solutions. The e-reader with an E Ink ...

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