Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start.

A nearly 8,000-square-foot Reservoir Hill mansion built by a prominent 19th-century Baltimore businessman is for sale, less ...

Affluent liberals' purported compassion bears a striking resemblance to self-interest. In fact, like their 19th-century ...

Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its ...

(Getty Images) The bonding between enslaved Africans and Irish servants, which began in the 18th century, would continue in the 19th century. From the 1830s to the 1860s, the Five Points ...

Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Since President Donald Trump began his second term last month, he has focused on dramatically reducing the federal workforce ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland ... He is scandalised by the extravagance of the nobility in their employment of servants: In every house owned by a person of ...

Historical anime fans who enjoyed The Apothecary Diaries are spoiled with choice when it comes to other, similar anime of the same genre.