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

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.

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

Some things become so ubiquitous that we barely notice them anymore. This trope, however, has a deep history we all forgot.

New York, among other cities around the globe, has been the epicenter of virtuosic cantorial performance of Jewish liturgy ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

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

Regardless of intention, the history behind anthropodermic ... artifacts from within the last century that get misplaced for a few decades. This book in particular was donated by a family with ...

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.” ...

It later moved into medicines, commercialising aspirin around the turn of the 20th century, one of the most successful pharmaceuticals ever at that point. The unregulated nature of the trade in ...

The authors are writing in response to the Trump administration's criticism of a “widespread effort to rewrite history” with the goal to create “societal divides.” ...

Arp’s abstractions, Schwitters’ constructions, Picabia’s targets and stripes and Duchamp’s readymades were soon turning up in the work of major 20th-century artists and art movements.