An 11th-century warlord who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers left behind a reputation that expanded into myth.

This was the environment that created Al Capone. The first celebrity gangster, Capone was happy to be perceived as the head ...

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...

Mark Lamster on recent monographs on Mies van der Rohe, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Architecture Research Office.

First off, A Complete Unknown is a great film – very watchable. Bob Dylan obsessives (cultists even) will see it over and ...

In more ways than one, Jimmy Breslin had a big head. As a lion of the New York and American press, Breslin counted nearly a century’s worth of politicians, operators, gangsters and cops as ...

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The idea that the CIA invented the term is itself a bit of a conspiracy theory. An earlier post on X, shared Nov. 22, 2024, tied the claim to the late-1960s release of a CIA memo, writing: "In ...

They both won a second term after losing the previous election. But Cleveland’s second administration was such a disaster it ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

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Originally released on home video, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: A Historical Perspective follows a more traditional approach ...