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“We warn our opponents not to drive us to the uttermost,” he bellowed. “Hunger is preferable to disgrace, and deprivation is to be preferred to dishonor.” And, as it turned out, the harsh terms of …

While headlines chronicle the unending misdeeds of this sordid decade, a comprehensive list is needed.

A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In "History by a Hair," Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.

In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. President Donald Trump’s dismal approval r...

History buffs heading to Greece are mostly drawn to the country’s wealth of classical temples and amphitheatres. But now the culture ministry has opened a stunning, restored palace from the Byzantine ...

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.