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A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
Sonja Dümpelmann is a historian of landscapes and the built environment who lived in Philly from 2019 to 2023. During this time, she researched how female reformers and activists in Philadelphia in ...
C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb talked about his quest to bring live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congress into every American home. In an interview with current C-SPAN CEO Sam Feist, Lamb and C-SPAN's ...
Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...
Having a trauma history does not excuse bad or even abusive behavior towards others. It's possible to hold space for their ...
Here are some key events in the life of the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope from the Americas, who became a groundbreaking figure in the history of the Catholic Church: Dec. 17 ...
Trump administration officials forcefully defend deporting the Maryland man, but they ignore a key document at the crux of ...
April is often associated with spring and renewal, but it also powerfully reminds us of the struggles and triumphs within ...
Few companies embody the term 'pharma giant' as much as Pfizer. Here we take a look at the colourful history of one of the biggest drugmakers in the world. Pfizer was founded in 1849 by two recent ...
Here’s a look at a timeline of the entire case, from the key six-hour period surrounding O’Keefe’s death and the ensuing legal battle over who is responsible. January 28, 2022: Read ...
The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book of the History of the Franks by St. Gregory of Tours ...
This month, we explore the 125-year-old history of Abbott Laboratories and its most significant milestone to date – the creation of its own independent company, AbbVie. In 1888, a 30-year-old ...