When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...

Ward Kimball, the iconoclast Disney director and animator, was born on this day in 1914. And thus, it seems like a fitting ...

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The two Orthodox, Slavic countries share a close historical bond, and the alliance between Serbia and Russia triggered World War I in 1914. More recently, Russia has strongly backed Serbia in its ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

The first bird to benefit from the chicken work will most likely be the passenger pigeon, which once existed in the billions in the US before being hunted to extinction by 1914. The bird was so ...

One unsettling example here is a grid of surveillance images of suffragettes from the Criminal Record Bureau, handed out to public galleries in 1914 when their militancy was at its peak.

The American strategist Nicholas Spykman (1893-1943), referencing a European event that precipitated World War I in 1914, and another that accelerated the 1930s economic catastrophe, said ...

A new movie starring Al Pacino and Patricia Heaton is beginning to make waves on the internet. The Ritual is currently in production, and it follows two priests, “one questioning his faith and ...