Fly-whisks are used ritually to fan temple idols and sacred objects such as the Sikh holy book in gurudwaras, and are a ...

When Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in 1942, Jonathan Wainwright and his forces remained behind to face the Japanese.

Raised in a military family on frontier posts across the West, Wainwright, like MacArthur, was a 19th-century soldier confronting the new warfare of the 20th century. But, as Jonathan Horn tells ...

Nestled atop a plateau that overlooks deserts and savannas linking the coastal lowlands and central highlands of Ethiopia and Somalia, in the 16th century, Harar became the capital of the Adal ...

Marxist theory is often assumed to be fundamentally alien to US history. But when a memo from Donald Trump’s Office of ...

For so many years, we were the envy of our friends. Thirteen championships (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) in this century. That’s all ...

Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the National Medal of the Arts In 2005 and has written or co-authored seven books, ...

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

ERIC: Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his "Helios Overture” in 1902, while accompanying his wife, sculptor Anne Marie Broderson, to Greece, after she had received a rarely-granted authorization to ...

THE vast top floor of Salts Mill is filled with voices singing. In the spinning room, the sound of whistling and a ...