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In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

In the heart of Seattle, a national park memorializes the grit of the Klondike gold rush, where the president’s grandfather ...

As Seattle was rebuilding from a catastrophic fire that had destroyed nearly all of its central business district, Frederick ...

A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ...

In the prologue, excerpted here, Oney explores a pivotal night when NPR narrowly avoided financial implosion, thanks to a ...

Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...

Generational wealth is simply money that is passed down from one branch of the family tree to the next — and not from just ...

He promised law and order. Instead, his scandal-ridden mayoralty became a symbol — and engine — of the city’s chaos.

Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has officially launched the African Women's House, known locally as Musiehjah, in Monrovia.

The Daguerre Val de Loire auction house announced the attribution this week, saying that the owners of the oil study didn't ...