“Cupid and Co.” was most likely the firm of Joseph Mansell, a lace-paper and stationary company that manufactured large numbers of valentines between the 1840s and 1860s – and also just happened to ...
Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.
February is Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, an annual time to celebrate the achievements, ...
The writer, a two-time winner of the National Book Award, talks about her novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' a journey through the slave South filled with horror and lyricism echoing powerfully in the ...
"Brooklynites" uncovers the 19th-century struggles of Black residents in what was a New York slaveholding hub.
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
Professor of Economics and author of 'How to Think Like an Economist', who has just released in Spanish by La Esfera de los Libros. Robbie Mochrie is a Professor of Economics at Heriot-Watt University ...