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As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...

Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...

Drawing from new book Health Justice Now, activist and author Timothy Faust makes the case for a single-...

The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...

Hollywood immortalized one of the most famous prison breaks in wartime history, The Great Escape of 76 Allied soldiers and officers from Germany...

As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...

Barbara Strozzi defied the constraints of the times in which she lived. Born just over 400 years ago, gifted as a singer and composer, she was o...

When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t...

In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’...