A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

The Academy Award-nominated actor is under fire for a series of tweets that resurfaced Thursday, expressing her views on topics such as race and religion. Read our review of The Brutalist, which ...

Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney: while critics questioned Linda’s musical talent, she performed heroics in emotional support. Picture: Getty ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington garnered national headlines for rebuking President Donald Trump's policies during the Inauguration Day service at Washington National ...

As part of the rich tapestry of her ascendancy background, Lady Gregory’s great-grandfather had known George Washington ... As Judith Hill reveals in her biography, "Lady Gregory: An Irish ...

The Champaran region in Bihar — known for being the launching ground for Mahatma Gandhi’s historic 1917 Civil Disobedience Movement — has another claim to fame: it is the birthplace of George ... in ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...