Today in History for Aug. 11: In 1711, the first running at Britain's famous Ascot horse track was held. Ascot was founded by Queen Anne after she came across a natural clearing while out riding near ...

Some 40 years ago, my mother donated a 1915 landscape plan to the State Historical Society of Iowa’s library in Iowa City. The plan, a rare surviving hand-painted sketch by landscape architect Joseph ...

MANITOULIN—“We’ve passed too many boundaries,” David Suzuki said last week—not with thunder, but with the hush before a storm. After decades urging Canada to listen—to science, the land, ancestors—he ...

The juxtaposition of the anti-censorship “Books Aren’t Dangerous to Kids” opinion piece by Sapers and McNicoll, and the ...