When I picked up the phone to call Cruse — always Howie to me — the most important thing I knew was that he had known my ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

Waiting for them under the tree in our sunny Pasadena living room might be left-handed oven mitts or can openers, kitchen ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Goodman memorializes de la Rocque de Roberval and her remarkable valor through masterful writing, reminding the 21st century ...

Hanna Perekhoda revisits Lenin’s pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his ...

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, local history librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

Marie Benedict does. In “The Queens of Crime,” Benedict imagines that five of the female greats of the era, fighting a ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...

I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.

Day, a day in history that changed Europe and around the world forever. The brave men who charged that beach in northern France will never be forgotten.

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...