History

This July will mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen — so this year is surely a fitting time to reflect on a subject b ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks t ...

The late-setting July sun illuminated the canyon of freshly deserted mills on the avenue. Over-sized factory windows coated in senescent ...

There is much to be learned from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” written in 1949, which has suddenly jumped again ...

If music has charms to calm the savage breast, can art soothe the distraught body politic? “Paperscapes” at the ...

It’s that time of year again, Black History Month, the month that brings attention to the American history that doesn’t get much “a ...

We tend to look to the past for guidance and wisdom. There are cues that today's political class should take from the fourth president of the United States, James Madison.

Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati ...

Donald Trump’s wall is sure to become a geo-political trivia question, which will likely be phrased, “What humongous ego tha ...

When I was an undergrad at Temple, I was asked to create an illustration for an article about abortion to appear in the first issue of th ...

Donald Trump is correct: The American intelligence community misled us about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction. So that mean ...