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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, ...

Over 350-some brisk pages, Storm sets out to trace how nationalism developed in politics, culture and the arts from the age ...

Agrippa Hull, a free Black man born in Massachusetts in 1759 and veteran of the Revolutionary War, spent the vast majority of ...