It’s 1920, Republicans feel their government trifecta melting away. They’ve decided forcing a constitutional crisis is the only way to ...

I was born in the United States, and the first census I was recorded on was in 1950. Because individual US census records are released after 72 years, I was able to see that original form in 2022, and ...

The Amish, a Christian denomination and a three-century-old ethnic group of German migrants known for its strict lifestyle standards, are one of the fastest-growing minority populations in the U.S.

No one knows what jobs of the future will be. Imagine telling someone in 1910 that, one day, only 2 percent of the population ...

North America's beaver population faced near extinction due to the fur trade. Fashion changes and conservation efforts allowed their numbers to slowly recover. Remarkably, beavers are now recognized ...

Jill Lepore on how opposition to data centres is reshaping politics — and what history tells us about regulating new ...

By century’s end, Gentilly ranked as one of the most racially integrated sections of the city, and Black settlement ...

Researchers found male sturgeons lived anywhere from 90 to 279 years, while females lived from 99 to as many as 427 ...

When I was in fourth grade, everyone in my class had grand ideas about what they wanted to be when they grew up: a professional basketball player, a firefighter, a professor (I grew up in a college ...

When I was in fourth grade, everyone in my class had grand ideas about what they wanted to be when they grew up: a ...

In May, the Justice Department announced its findings that the Yale School of Medicine uses race in admissions reviews despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling striking down those race-based programs.