Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

"The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies" takes an in-depth look at the position of first lady. While many books exist to tell the story of individuals, the new work examines the job from ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation.— Thomas Jefferson writing to James ...

In “The World After Gaza,” Pankaj Mishra looks for moral clarity in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Richard Martin Wilstätter was born in Karlsruhe on August 13, 1872. His father was a cloth merchant. In From My Life ...

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

President Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, asserting unprecedented executive power and daring anyone to stop him. Here's the latest: Democrats determined not to let ...

The victims of the first major U.S. commercial air disaster in 16 years included a rising legal star, an engineering student ...

Betar US is going after pro-Palestinian activists — and also pro-Israel advocates whose tactics it deems overly timid.

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

Joseph Cassilly was born in Harford County in December of 1950, according to his biography on a Maryland ... into the whole anti-criminal justice movement, where the cops are the bad guys and ...