According to historian Edward Gibbon, the Roman Empire’s demise was the result of the gradual loss of civic virtue ...

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Here’s why Easter falls a little later than usual this year, on 4/20, and how the mid-April day became an unofficial holiday for weed smokers.

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Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...

The Justice Department quietly decided in the final weeks of the Biden administration not to prosecute Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively ending the corruption ...

The conservative-backed loser of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election promptly conceded the race as it was called, angering his ...

The Spring-into-Summer offerings this year in the classical realm are as rich, diverse, and extensive as ever.

The Tigray crisis reflects the legacy of ethnic conflict in Ethiopia following the end of the long imperial reign, intertwined with the history of ancient and ...