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Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...

The first vice president to occupy the White House after the death of the incumbent, John Tyler was derided by critics as “His Accidency.” Yet histori...

The Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Wendy Wasserstein’s...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Offering the keynote address for this year’s series on the American presidency, presidential scholar Robert Dallek examines why some...

The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Terrence McNally’s...

The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre returns for the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances. The 2012 series,...

The Library’s fifth Script-in-Hand season closes with the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s performance of Guys and Doll...

This August Wilson drama examines the many avenues of success denied by...

Physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg — teacher and student, respectively — helped define the theoretical limits of the modern age. In Copenh...