Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to ...

The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.

The creek is a mile-long stream on the southeastern side of Little Kiska Island, beside the bigger, more prominent Kiska Island 242 miles west of Adak at the far end of the Aleutian chain.

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

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Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

The Post Office has said it plans to offload its last remaining directly-owned branches, putting around 1,000 workers at risk ...

The National Park Service rewrote — then restored — the Underground Railroad story and reposted a deleted photo of ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been unmasked as the mystery buyer of one of Washington, D.C.'s most expensive properties: a $23 million mansion that he quietly paid for in an ...