In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

A cousin of Christian Science and the progenitor of the self-help industry’s more-secularized “positive thinking” gospel, ...

The transformation of a police barracks by EVR Architecten, BC Architects & Studies and Callebaut Architecten in Brussels is ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

February is Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, an annual time to celebrate the achievements, ...

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

A private boarding school in rural western Massachusetts that opened in the 19th century is receiving a $50 million bequest ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...