The military intervened, turning the country into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. But after the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

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James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where ...

The online companies have mined the offline archives to come up with carefully curated series. Topics vary but span the gamut of American history from the founding of the United States to national ...