Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

American democracy has been dramatically remade roughly every 60 years: the 1770s, the 1830s, the 1900s, the 1960s. Each time ...

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes is an enthralling biography of Alfred Tennyson in his youth.

The technology industry is obsessed with the future. Many of our modern marvels are rooted in the legacy of Bell Labs, an ...

Richard Ottinger represented Westchester County in Congress for 16 years before teaching environmental law and serving as a dean at Pace University.

Film critic Roger Ebert did not pull any punches when it came to his distaste for this John Wayne Vietnam War movie released ...

Celebrate spring with the destinations that boast amazing floral legacies.

A New York Democrat, he spent 16 years in the House over two stretches, beginning in 1965, championing the health of the Hudson River and opposing the Vietnam War.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was hardly a “do nothing” president. His record of service to the nation is simply unparalleled.

The City Council began the process to rename the Central Facilities Center at Martin Luther King Jr. Park to the Dale Clinton ...

The state of the humanities today creates a crisis,” the report concluded. “There is genuine doubt today whether the ...