Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

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Any self-knowing individual, taking total responsibility for the darkness of human consciousness in microcosm within them, can leave the stream of history – the stultifying collective and personal ...

It's a legendary song, but how common is it, really? We take a statistical deep dive to show that, indeed, for most of the ...

When you think about the 'greatest human,' your mind probably jumps to a celebrity or maybe a sports hero, right? But history ...

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McCALL — As some rare purebred dogs head toward extinction, Katherine Warren and her husband Trevor race around the world to document and photograph each and every breed.

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

History is full of geniuses, rulers, artists, and thinkers, many of whom carried habits so odd they seem unbelievable today.

There's nothing better than a road trip, and this delightfully scenic adventure in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a must for ...

Erbil celebrated "Effendi Day," honoring a historic class of literate civil servants symbolized by the Sidara cap, reviving a ...