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 ...

Recently installed as the youngest president of Harvard, Eliot was at the start of a 40-year tenure dedicated to making ...

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique, purpose-built scale was ready to ...

From pioneering classics like Stagecoach to revisionist masterpieces like Unforgiven, these 20th-century Western hits define the genre's greatness.

On Sept. 13, the U.S. recognizes Uncle Sam Day to commemorate Sam Wilson, the man behind the iconic image and fascinating ...

Maybe you’ll listen to Blume herself, who called the movie better than her own book. You’ll need your tissues for Ian ...

The Center for Sacramento History will hold a free public talk with historian and author Beth Lew-Williams on September 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the Jean Runyon Little Theatre inside the Memorial ...