Michael Hiltzik was such a newcomer, arriving in California from New York in 1981. He describes himself as “single, in my ...

Local historian Barbara Desmarais will lead a walking tour of New Meadows Cemetery, just behind New Meadows Church in Brunswick, at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 13. In the 17th and 18th centuries, families ...

In a time of growing polarisation and declining trust, the rule of law is under pressure. The system as we know it today only took shape 177 years ...

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...

Foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, and potato salad have become menu essentials at Independence Day cookouts across the country ...

Thomas Jefferson listened in anguish as the other members of the Continental Congress edited his draft of the Declaration of ...

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the EU to the Habsburgs, forgetting it was tsarist Russia that crushed the revolution of 1848 ...

Bruno Leipold, in his book Citizen Marx, examines Marx’s early political writings and shows that “republican freedom suffused Marx’s critique of the social domination of capitalism”. Marx defined his ...

Local author Kathleen Dowling continues to shed new light on the 1848 Emancipation in the former Danish West Indies, offering ...

In the past few years, writers have been liberated from traditional publishers with the advent of platforms like Substack, and there’s been a mushrooming of individual newsletters. But could it be ...

Our expert historian and columnist surveys the historical field and picks a shelf’s work of books that every intelligent reader ought to own ...