James McLaughlin sets the record for wins by a jockey in the Belmont Stakes, six, when he rides Sir Dixon to a 12-length victory. McLaughlin’s record is matched by Eddie Arcaro in 1955.

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...

Parents of Montclair Elementary School students in Oakland, Calif., were shocked to find a racial slur printed in their ...

John Halldorson knows the best way to keep people safe after an earthquake is to prepare communities beforehand.

The Artek summer camp was founded to "educate the citizens of a Socialist society." At the centenary of its founding, the ...

J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of ...

From playing in empty swimming pools, barn lofts and dance halls to commanding the attention of millions of fans around the ...

“Following similar action in several foreign countries, including France, Belgium and the U.K., the government of India decided on demonetisation of high denomination notes, in January 1946 ...