This Central American country was a haven for visitors long before it became a major tourist destination.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 had two parts. The Bolshevik's October Revolution usually gets all of the attention. But what happened in February?

Toni Morrison, the first African American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born to working-class ...

With all the human casualties of armed conflict, sometimes the environmental impacts go unnoticed. But the U.S. military has started to ...

While Norman Rockwell's paintings struck a chord with the mass American public, that was not always not the case with art critics.

Anti-aging technology isn’t limited to groundbreaking medicine.

James Joyce remains a novelist whose characters are imbued with a Catholic world view, despite declaring himself to be a freethinking heretic.

President Trump praised abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his first remarks on Black History Month.

In the modern imagination, work is a source of pride, but early labor unions regarded hourly toil in industry as "wage slavery."

What do currents do anyway? What would happen if they stopped?