Maximilian, a young Austrian prince of the house of Hapsburg, somewhat naively accepted the offer to rule a distant and ...

Each state where slavery was outlawed recorded 0% of slave-owning families in the 1860 census — and both the 1.4% and 7.4% statistics included these free states, thus minimizing the extent of slavery ...

Groundbreaking elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.

The author, who published the short story collection ‘Hao’ in 2021, just published’ her first novel in English, “Straw Dogs of the Universe.” ...

Imagine that you're a slave in 1860s America. But on this particular day, June 19, 1865, a Union Army Major General Gordon forced your master to set you free!You and your master probably heard ...

“Copper,” which premieres Sunday night, is the first original drama from BBC America, a network that sometimes seems to be made entirely of “Top Gear” reruns. It is rather good. Co-created ...

After witnessing a string of fireballs streak across the sky in North America in 1860, the landscape painter rendered the ...

America’s pastime and the Fourth of July go together like peanuts and Cracker Jacks, but the game in the 1860s was nothing like today. Vintage ...

In the 1860s, Ye Chun’s ancestor emigrated to America. 150 years later, she did, too. The author, who published the short story collection 'Hao' in 2021, just published’ her first novel in ...