Here's what you need to know about how the holiday is celebrated—and the history of the traditional blowing of the shofar horn. Jewish people welcome the new year in September or October ...

Despina Stratigakos, professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning ... national awards such as the Society of Architectural Historians’ Spiro Kostof Book Award and ...

“But, really, it’s the history of civilization!” says Rachel McCarthy James, whose new book, “Whack Job” (St. Martin’s), chronicles the bloody and fascinating history of this versatile ...

she asks in the 1999 book. She also wrote, “We have come to a point in our history, however, when black- on-black love —A love that survived slavery, lynching, segregation, poverty and racism ...

The history goes back all the way to the Civil War and to America’s foundational struggle over slavery, citizenship, and federalism. America’s first federal Department of Education was also ...

Chris Brown is taking legal action months after a documentary exploring his alleged history of violence was released. The singer-songwriter sued Warner Bros. Discovery and several others for their ...

Alex Spiro, a high-profile lawyer, is representing Mayor Eric Adams as he battles criminal charges. Spiro is no stranger to star-studded controversy. He's defended both Elon Musk and Alec Baldwin.

Together with tax historian Joe Thorndike, we're going to walk through a brief history of tariffs in the United States. Joe, to get started, tell us about that very first tariff law back in 1789 ...

Throughout American history, there have been numerous attempts to assassinate sitting presidents, as well as president-elects and presidential candidates. The most recent came just this past ...

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...