I wonder what the old Puritans would think about what we’ve done to thanksgiving. I doubt that they would be amused. They were pretty somber people and frowned on most things fun. Historians say the ...

True fairness in sports means creating a level playing field where every athlete, regardless of identity, is given the ...

It is also common for visitors and employees to report mysterious taps on the shoulder, haunted alarm clocks that ring endlessly at night, footsteps in empty hallways, and cabinet doors that open on ...

This tiny disc of zinc with just a smidge of copper has played an outsized role in our national (and international) discourse ...

The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...

Today, it costs almost four cents to make a one-cent piece. Nickels are even more expensive, costing about 14 cents each.

BENJAMIN THOMAS, the author of the best single-volume biography of Lincoln, reminds us that following the election of President Zachary Taylor in 1848, ...

Cristiano Ronaldo met with Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, with the pair sharing a joke as they walked around the ...

Donald Trump has confidently claimed he is 6-foot-3 and proved it with his physical examination earlier this year, until he ...

In the unassuming town of Haubstadt, Indiana, there’s a culinary time machine disguised as a rustic wooden building called The Log Inn, where the fried chicken is so good it might make you weep tears ...

The roads through central and east-central Illinois offer that particular kind of Midwest scenery that city dwellers forget exists—rolling farmland, small towns that actually look like small towns, ...

As we enter into the final months of the first year in Donald Trump’s second presidency, America has witnessed many renovations of historical monuments and the generation of new architectural plans ...