A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when ...

Your kitchen pantry holds untapped superpowers! Those dusty shelves can actually safeguard your future meals through power outages, snowstorms, or those nights when grocery shopping feels like ...

The market’s atmosphere carries a distinctive sensory signature—the subtle scent of aged paper from boxes of books, the faint polish of well-maintained wooden furniture, and that indefinable aroma ...

A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.

While some baby names of the 1950s are just as popular today as they were then, others have fallen out of fashion, like poodle skirts. The latter is especially true of baby girl names of the 1950s.

Republicans scored a bigger victory than they themselves expected. They came within two seats (49-47) of capturing the Senate, substantially reduced the Fair Deal majority in the House. In the Senate, ...