For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was shaped by waves of believers fleeing wars, revolutions and persecution in lands such as Greece, Syria, Russia and Romania.

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...

Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans together warrants our attention. But as a historian of ...

In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...

Orthodox Christianity remains a small flock in America, with 2 to 3 million believers in 2,000 parishes. The Pew Research ...

In New York City — where skyrocketing rents eat up paychecks and leave families scraping by — the Afro-Indian-Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani just seized power in November, winning many of the working ...

On November 20, Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony sat down for an interview with conservative New York Times columnist Ross ...

GK: This article lists countries where documented, researched, and verified instances of human cannibalism once took place.

Train Dreams ending explained as Robert Grainier’s grief collides with the mystery of the wolf girl. Is she really Katie or just a vision?

The Jewish nation today is facing its greatest survival challenge in 2,000 years: an attempt to negate the idea of the Jewish state, and through it the idea of Judaism.

It is hard to imagine a world without corn. It sweetens our sodas, fuels our cars, fattens our livestock, and forms the core ...

Social psychologist Hugh Mackay explores influential quotes from thinkers like Bertrand Russell and Germaine Greer in a new ...