Over 1,500 people died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 14-15, 1912, following its fateful collision with an iceberg in one of the most notorious maritime disasters in history.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

A set of 12 Lizzie Borden crime scene photographs dating back to 1892 was sold at the 65th annual New York International ...

Americans have never stopped debating the balance of powers, the rules of enfranchisement or how widely to apply the exhortation, “All men are created equal.” ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...

Sea Containers London on the city's South Bank now has four new suites, each inspired by a distinct golden era of transatlantic cruising. The accommodations, available for booking starting April 16, ...

Photo by Robert Capa/Magnum Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, and ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Those early days and the hundreds of years of history that have come since ... to the gay liberation movement of the late 20th century. TAILLON: But from here, we're going to walk from Astor Place ...