One of the joys of my childhood was exploring Yosemite National Park with my father. Anyone who has ever been there remembers the stark site of El Capitan, ...
By Stephen Smoot Three years ago this week, the Russian Federation launched a war against Ukraine with the goal of absorbing territory containing both Russian ethnics and the richest farmland outside ...
By Stephen Smoot It was a February much like the winter seen this year. Bitter cold settled over the land. Ground and streams both froze solid in temperatures that ranged at times not just below ...
In the Civil War, most soldiers were white. But some 190,000 Blacks served as well, and the facts behind their stories – and struggles – are sometimes overlooked.
The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National ...
Despite having much of its most valuable territory retaken by the summer of 1864, the Confederacy continued to resist. If it ...
A reader says San Antonio's Project Marvel has great promise for downtown, but others remain skeptical about the return on investment.
New York’s political class, out of step as usual with the popular mood, thinks it’s still 2017, and that its job is to ...