Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...

A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived ...

The fork’s journey from reviled symbol of moral decay to utilitarian instrument is a story of power, privilege, and ...

President Donald Trump praised his youngest son, Barron Trump, as a "smart guy" with an affinity for technology ahead of Barron’s 19th birthday on Thursday. The president said his teen son has a ...

The youngest son of Donald Trump had an eventful year after turning 18, including taking a more visible role in his family's politics and returning to New York City for college Linda Marx is a ...

The interview you are about to read was pitched for a single, simple reason: Actor Erin Doherty had just delivered my favorite performance of the year. The role in question is Mary Carr, the ...

A northern Virginia judge has ruled that human embryos are not property, despite a court having previously ruled that embryos could be considered divisible “goods or chattel” based on 19th century ...

Alice Burdick’s mother, Maria Hull, circa 1903. Public domain. A little before eight on February 27, 1903, Mrs. Hull (Allie’s mother) awoke to a quiet house. Ed should have long since been ...

It’s 1962. Cold War tensions bristle between Washington and Moscow. Forced to enlist by the United States military, a young physician reluctantly cuts short his medical residency at New York’s ...

A judge in northern Virginia has dismissed the long-running case of a cancer survivor who sued her ex-husband for access to two frozen embryos created during their marriage, saying that human ...