Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...
The writer, a two-time winner of the National Book Award, talks about her novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' a journey through the slave South filled with horror and lyricism echoing powerfully in the ...
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
The intense debate over President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F.
What foods and drinks look like — the colors we see before the first morsels or sips hit our tastebuds — have mattered to people for millennia. And nowhere has that been more blatant than the American ...
Trump says America was at its richest in the late 1800s. Here are the facts. The president recently said: 'We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country.' As President ...
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...
Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.