About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

The 2025 Writers Guild Awards took place in New York tonight (with a satellite West Coast ceremony) and, surprise, it was ...

Screenplay nominees for this year include Jesse Eisenberg for "A Real Pain" and Sean Baker for "Anora," while television and ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

According to the photo's caption, pictured here are "A Rockwitz (312lbs), comedian Eddie Carvey (250lbs), David Burns (475lbs ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

Over the course of 87 years of nearly ceaseless activity, Higginson had been a teacher, minister, state legislator, fiery abolitionist, women’s-rights advocate, colonel of a regiment of ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg ... was a political analyst for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns’ PBS documentaries. In 2008, he was given the Arthur M.

28, 2023 photo shows William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin ... was a political analyst for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns’ PBS documentaries. In 2008, he was given ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely ... was a political analyst for CBS and NBC and consulted on several of Ken Burns' PBS documentaries. In 2008, he was given ...