Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

And yet, a culture that never reckons with its past cannot apprehend the shape of its future. The denial of Unit 731’s legacy, the institutional amnesia surrounding the biological experimentation ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The first novel by Heather Clark, an acclaimed biographer of Sylvia Plath, is about a Harvard senior who falls for a ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new single-cam comedy from comedian Aaron Karo is in early development at CBS. The script for Blanks will be ...

In Heather Clark’s novel, “The Scrapbook,” an American girl meets a German boy and falls head over heels — and headfirst into ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

At the dawn of the 20th century, two epochal events shaped the way any conscientious Indian thought. The first was the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa in January, 1915 and the second marked ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change ...

A new biography about New Jersey native Marsha P. Johnson details how she inspired a revolution through her joy.

Congress voted to make one of the grand monuments in Lafayette Square across from the White House an ode to Baron Friedrich ...