Jackson disregarded judicial decisions and public outcry, acting with executive authority that appeared unconstrained. An ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

The Justice Department has unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

He did not give up. In 1846 he escaped in disguise and fled once again to London, where he remained until France’s 1848 ...

Iranians are divided on what Donald Trump’s next presidency will bring: Some foresee an all-out war between Tehran and ...

We just watched the final fulfillment of a 50 year plan. Louis Powell laid it out in 1971, and every step along the way ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the ...

The Music Institute of Chicago welcomes faculty pianist Matthew Hagle for “Phantoms of Countless Lost,” a program exploring ...