Welcome to the new strongman era. If the world seems on edge these days, with alliances fraying, violent conflicts emerging ...

One minor but arresting fact of U.S. history is the huge amount of alcohol the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every ...

Fragmentos Del Barrio,” at the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center in Barrio Logan, celebrates the artist and his role in ...

A World War II-era issue of Army Life and United States Recruiting News told of a 60-year-old tandem bicycle still used by messengers at the Fort Moultrie Army base. The story, ostensibly about the ...

Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, the celebrated Ugandan scholar Prof Mahmood Mamdani delivers ...

With the Treasury Department no longer minting the one-cent coin, some businesses are offering perks to customers who bring ...

As great powers abandon even the pretense of law, the undeclared war on Venezuela exposes a world ruled by extortion, ...

Little Niagara Falls (no relation to the big one up north) is a local favorite swimming spot, where generations of Oklahomans have learned to swim and escape the summer heat. The falls aren’t towering ...

In the heart of East Texas sits a bargain hunter’s paradise so vast it can be seen from space—or at least from a low-flying plane with good eyesight. First Monday Trade Days in Canton transforms 450 ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...