Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Jocelyn Holland, professor of comparative literature at Caltech and an expert on the intellectual history of 18th- and 19th-century Germany, has ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Since Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann founded statistical mechanics in the late 19th century, physicists have struggled ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

At the age of 104, the CPC is less a static ideological monolith than a complex, evolving system of governance and statecraft ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

The obesity rate in Italy is far below that in the U.S., even though Italians enjoy multicourse meals involving pasta.