In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to ...

Even his opponents are acknowledging that the president-elect has executed the greatest political comeback in American ...

Bach Yen got her start in Saigon for a cosmopolitan audience, learning nightclub standards in English, French, Spanish and Italian, in addition to Vietnamese.

During a sweltering week in March 1906, American soldiers ascended Bud Dajo, a 2,000-foot volcano on the island of Jolo in ...

From cringe-inducing surgical procedures to strange proto-technology and cultural museums, this free park is definitely worth ...

Thanks to the Folio Society, fans of the 1992 alternate history novel can relive the winding investigation undertaken by ...

Throughout history, January 12 has been witness to some big moments. In 2010, Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake that ...

The historic Rosedale neighborhood, now part of Kansas City, Kansas, is not just home to the University of Kansas Medical ...

Army Cpl. Fred B. McGee is being recognized for his gallantry and intrepidity near Tang-Wan-Ni, Korea, on June 16, 1952, when ...

Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...

Is it more than the final sendoff for a long-gone one-term president? With Jimmy Carter's passing, Washington is marking two legacies: that of a peanut farmer-turned-governor of a southern state ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding and its eight-year ...