One food site, for example, serves up a “French Kiss” vegan Valentine’s Day menu of vegetable soup with pesto, a vegetarian pâté sandwich, eggplant Florentine, and potatoes with lentils. This is ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

Americans are trading bar culture for wellness apps and mocktails. But despite alcohol’s many shortcomings, our national ...

As capital cities go, the Canadian capital of Ottawa is a somewhat overlooked destination, even though it s the fourth-largest city in the country ...

Alexander Hamilton." Whether you're a history buff or a musical lover, it's likely you know a thing or two about Alexander ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

It’s the site of Native American activity dating back thousands of years. And it’s one of the first sites settled by Europeans in the early 1700s. By the time of the Revolution, colonists had ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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While there are chapters focusing on big names like Bill Russell and boxer “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, most of the book’s contributors ... into a high school all-American before he went ...