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“The opera is where society puts itself on display,” claims Bertha Russell, one of the main protagonists in season two of HBO’s The Gilded Age.

Mental health experts plot out what they believe is Trump’s increasingly psychopathic behavior

The conservative mega-donor network is throwing its weight behind the former South Carolina governor in an effort to beat former President Donald Trump.

The birthplace of the American Revolution is an underrated hub for good food, culture, and history.

The owner of Jimmy John's and Arby's has bought Subway, and a Massachusetts senator has concerns.

This just-published article is here; the Abstract: Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries often feared that secret assembly threatened republican government. Oath-bound secret societies were allegedly elitist cabals that would establish an imperium in imperio oppressive to ordinary citizens. Yet despite this hostility, many early Americans also insisted that…

In a new HBO documentary, writer Charles Blow explores how moving to the south could lead to important political and societal change for Black Americans

Aileen Wuornos murdered at least six men along the Florida highways in late 1989 and 1990

A history of a turbulent 12 months, our efforts to conserve Britain’s past, plus Tim O’Brien’s first novel in more than 20 years