(Field trips in the Antarctic, Shubin says, make the Arctic feel like “a quaint family camping trip ... around 10 per cent of the planet’s history. Researchers have been able to determine ...

Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher ...

Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" remains one of the most famous and powerful works of the 20th century — and one of the most poignant accounts of a young person's life during the Holocaust.

February is American Heart Month, which is an appropriate time to learn how genetic testing can protect your family.

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery combine to comprise the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Opened in 1923, the Freer Gallery showcases American paintings from the ...

Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

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

Eric Tucker – the uncle of this book's author, Joe Tucker – was a labourer from Warrington, Lancashire. A bachelor who spent ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

The notorious Sackler family, opioid pushers responsible for countless cases of addiction and death, can’t seem to settle their legal problems without turning to some kind of unprincipled maneuver.