In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.

Christy S. Coleman, executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, will sit down with a new batch of scholars to ...

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote Shakespeare, but the Bard didn’t know what the summer of ‘24 had in store. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are ...

Throughout the early days of Arkansas' statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the "The ...

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote Shakespeare, but the Bard didn’t know what the summer of ’24 had in store. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are ...

Author Linda Ambrus Broenniman shares her thoughts on writing a family history for a family she never knew she had.

Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the political parties at that time and the candidates who were on the presidential tickets.

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — ...

Given the divisive political climate in our country right now, when I heard about the new play TH IR DS being presented at ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...