With over 2,500 vendors sprawling across acres of sun-baked asphalt, the Rose Bowl Flea Market stands as California’s temple to the second-hand, the vintage, and the gloriously weird. For just $45 ...

Annie Polland argues that studying our humble roots teaches us what really makes American history exceptional.

Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, ...

From historic gowns worn by Texas’ first ladies to rare manuscripts and university archives, the special collections at Texas ...

History repeats itself — that’s one of the things wrong with history,” Clarence Darrow once said. Darrow, who died in 1938 at age 80, understood history, or at least how […] ...

The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began ...