Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

Celtic mythology is comprised of legends and lore from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany.

Different sources have different ideas. All seem to include Hertfordshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Kent, some include ...

Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...

Every direction he turned, he could see ice stretching to the edge of the Earth: white ice and blue ice ... The man, whose name was Henry Worsley, consulted a G.P.S. device to determine precisely ...

• The celebration of Valentine’s Day can be traced back as far as a Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia. On Lupercalia, a young man would draw the name of a young woman in a lottery and would then ...

The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

Scheme to protect mile-long shingle beach from effects of climate change may see Hurst Castle isolated by the sea A castle built by Henry VIII could be cut off from the mainland under rewilding ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Donald Trump’s method of branding is straightforward. He slaps his name on a business, whether he owns it or not, and—boom—a ...