Ballantine House has been reimagined to be more inclusive, with a temporary exhibit on 19th- century Black women.

Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic ...

A cousin of Christian Science and the progenitor of the self-help industry’s more-secularized “positive thinking” gospel, ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...

Scholar Kathryn Vaggalis has untangled the complex racial identity of Greek immigrants to America in her research of Greek "picture brides." ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

In Pakistan, chocolates have become a staple for celebrations, particularly on Valentine’s Day. The influence of global ...

The Professor of History sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss 19th century forgeries, his new book, and why he considers himself a "non-traditional historian." ...

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...