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In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings

How John Breckinridge and the Democratic Party lost the 1860 presidential election

Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.

The brief success of Harlem's own record company

The first First Lady to hit the campaign trail without her husband

The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.

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The president accuses his former vice president of treason and tussles with a Supreme Court justice.

In search of healing, we've said goodbye to privacy.

Rabbi and Architect Scale New Heights with Innovative Synagogue.

World's Fairs During the Depression

Corner Houses Were an Anchoring Presence in Cosmopolitan Soho.

The Americans triumphed over yellow fever, landslides, and worker strikes to change the earth's landscape.

Iroquois traveled far and wide.

On the political and social revolution of lighting up the night.

An anthology of writings by veterans.

It takes patience and cunning to learn the traditional way of Japanese boats.

The story of Henry Box Brown's escape from slavery.

Fifty-five outdoor sculptures define a modern sensibility at tiny Ursinus College.

Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings

William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionists

A visit to Chestertown, Maryland

What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?

What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing.

Middle schoolers comb through diaries, trek over battlefields, and relive history with cameras in hand.

Two hundred years ago, Pride and Prejudice was anonymously published.

Esperanto, Klingon, "Oirish," and others.

Oberlin, Ohio, was an abolitionist stronghold, but not impermeable.

Thomas Pearson repelled American forces, driving Canada toward nationhood.

A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?