The Century Safe In 1876, Americans filled an iron safe with objects meant to tell their story — to be opened a century later ...

John Barry went from a Wexford cabin boy to the "Father of the US Navy." A new documentary finally tells his story.

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His 1998 book, “Gotham,” which told the city’s story to 1898, focused on social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

An award that confirms the value of an artistic and cultural journey dedicated to the rediscovery of a fundamental ...

National Geographic Explorers celebrate the greatest American treasures—mountains, forests, wetlands and canyons—from sea to ...

American exceptionalism has always had an absurd and self-serving character to it. But any pretense justifying it has collapsed in the face of Donald Trump’s cruelty and oligarchic corruption.

Though “Idiocracy” and “The Godfather” topped their list, the sheer range of suggestions shows how there are many ways to ...

She made history as the first openly transgender member of Congress, and now a documentary is giving an inside look into the ...

Presidential reputations rarely stay fixed. As government records are declassified, personal papers become public, and ...