What does it take to become cinema’s most iconic lion? For Jackie, it was a lot more than just roaring on cue. Here’s how he earned the nickname 'Leo the Lucky.' ...

From the founding of the United States until long after the Civil War, hundreds of the elected leaders writing the nation’s laws were current or former slaveowners.

Copulsky notes in his new book, American Heretics, this interpretation of the founding’s religious implications has always ...

Would History Change if Hitler Had Another Zodiac Sign? The brutal dictator was an Aries and he encompassed some of this ...

Respected college professor Thornton Sayre is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV, and sets out with his daughter to stop it. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing ...

After dominating the National League for the first decade-plus of the 20th Century, the Cubs fell into disrepair around the ...

One of my first interactions with the Sweet Science was watching the Rocky movies with my grandfather, but being a history ...

Stranger Than Fiction is testimony to its author’s sheer appetite for books, and especially for 20th-century fiction at its most testing and ambitious. His article of faith is that the most demanding ...

By contrast, the warming from the 1910s to the 1940s, here termed early twentieth-century warming (ETCW), still defies full explanation. Here I argue that investigating regional temperature ...

Tenor and Chicago native Ian Koziara, along with pianist Bradley Moore, has released an exciting CD on Cedille devoted to ...

Pablo Picasso was by far the greatest artist of the 20th century: textbooks of art history contain more than twice as many illustrations of his work as of that of his closest rival, Henri Matisse. A ...