In 1842, Friedrich Engels walked the streets of Manchester in the UK, noting its crowded tenements and sunless, smoke-filled ...
The Village Voice offers a gift-giving guide on hard copies of some cinema classics, oddballs, and bizarro porn.
Visitors and memberships are up since the Rensselaer County history site became a center of information and filming for HBO's ...
The 19th century British writer Charles Dickens wrote, “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” While ...
The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi was filled with an exuberant crowd, celebrating the return ...
Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can ...
Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...
The Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens has long made music that sheds light on America's untold stories, ...
The devices were used to track movement and measure productivity—an insightful foreshadowing of our current preoccupation ...