The Americas' showcases the wonders, secrets and fragilities of the world’s greatest supercontinent, narrated by Tom Hanks.

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

In the early months of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. did something he rarely allowed himself to do -- he stepped away. He ...

When Jessie Burton published The Miniaturist in 2014, it became the fastest-selling debut of the decade, shifting over a ...