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Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...

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The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...

See a movie scene dominated by skyscrapers and speeding taxis, and you know in an instant that you’re in New York. For Los Angeles, it’s freeways a...

Higher education has been in the news a lot lately as politicians debate the merits of student loan forgiveness and free community college tuition....

Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...

The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...

While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...

For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor...