Tag: History

The idea of a new Civil War has been coursing through the national conversation lately, as Americans try to make sense of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, or ...

Historian and filmmaker Ken Burns, who is renowned for his documentaries on everything from the history of baseball to the Vietnam War, argued in an NPR interview on Tuesday that the ...

Tonight, Jeopardy! fans spent one last evening with Alex Trebek. Taped on October 29, Friday’s episode was the last with the beloved host reading the clues and setting the tone ...

I’m back. Listen, every 40 years I take off two weeks. It’s the new year. For females, new time for fake nails, fake lashes, fake hair, fake teeth, fake boobs, ...

The story of Santa Claus seems to be a tale as old as time, but the Christmas icon actually has his roots in a real-life person—the Catholic figure of St. ...

It has come as a shock to many that a civil war is raging in Ethiopia, with the Ethiopian government waging what it startlingly called a “law enforcement operation” in ...

This will be a Thanksgiving unlike any other, not just because of a resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also because of an upwelling of hostility toward the holiday itself. ...

Seventy-five years on from the Nuremberg Trials, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nazi war criminals behind some of history’s worst crimes is 100 years old and still spreading a ...

Greenland, despite its name, isn’t all that green. It’s actually covered in ice — this was always the mind-blowing thing that teachers liked to reveal when they told us that ...

Genevoix wrote five memoirs of his time as a frontline soldier experiencing the horrors of trench warfare in the conflict, which he later collected into a single book “Ceux de ...