The new Kenilworth Castle exhibition is described as a 'frightening journey' featuring Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley and Anne Boleyn as macabre animals and skeletons in a giant game of chess ...

President Donald Trump’s having repeated a phrase ascribed to Napoleon — “he who saves his country does not violate any laws” ...

There are some style variations between the different Ḥasidic sects that can make it easy to identify them (Ger, Satmar, etc.). Additionally, Ḥaredim (very orthodox, as opposed to ultra-orthodox) men ...

Janet Livingston married Richard Montgomery on July 24, 1773. She never remarried after his death during his campaign to Canada in winter 1775. She never let anyone forget “my general” or “my soldier, ...

The UNESCO Expert Council has recommended postponing the inclusion of Crete's Minoan Palaces on the World Heritage List.

A series of new and threatened injunctions, amid resumption of contract talks behind a wall of secrecy, suggest the city and ...

In nimbly reported essays, the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos considers the bizarre spectacles and amoral contortions of the ...

Yet it was frequently discussed in a language that is more resonant of the Middle Ages than the scientific laboratory.

The United States is beginning to look like a dictatorship seeking to divest itself of anyone who is poor and speaks Spanish.

Dollar Princesses, also known as Buccaneers, American Duchesses, and Banknote Brides, were wealthy American heiresses from ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...