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

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

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A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And ...

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

Oxford University’s Oriel College has announced plans to host an exhibition “contextualising” the controversial 19th-century ...

Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ...

After taking measurements of the 200-year-old suit, Philip De Paola assembled a mock-up, or toile, in muslin and then ...

The Professor of History sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss 19th century forgeries, his new book, and why he considers ...

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For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

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