The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the ...

Baltimore orioles began to alight on the white clouds of Callery pear trees blossoms lining our driveway on April 26th, more ...

But while many urban centers are founded around industrial, agricultural, and trade concerns, Washington, D.C. (that acronym ...

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

Geography determines climate and resour ... started finding a place in political assertions in the late nineteenth century with the growing academic understanding that the Aryan-speaking people ...

More than 400 German toys dating from the 19th Century have sold at auction for almost £200,000. The collection of toys made out of wood, papier-mâché or composition in the Sonneberg and ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Allysia Finley, Jason Riley, and Kim Strassel. Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP/Terrence Antonio James/Zuma Press/Chris O'Meara/AP Will the ...

For more than a decade since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Russia and Ukraine have battled over the atmospheric seascapes of the celebrated 19th-century painter Ivan ...

The androids’ hardware and software can generate comedy or tragedy. But either way, these 19th-century automatons on 21st-century stages reaffirm that the uncanny valley stretches centuries into ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

There has been a surprising and consistent theme in several of Kacsymaryk’s rulings: the Comstock Act, a 19th-century sexual purity law that has lain dormant for more than a century. Last spring ...