A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician has been convicted in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil.

Some of the United States’ most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey as part of the ...

Daryl Hannah speaks out against FX's 'Love Story,' about the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, in ...

In “Chosen Land,” Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.

This isn’t Enrigue’s first foray into historical absurdism. His previous novel published in English, You Dreamed of Empires, retells the encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette ...

The National Museum of American History adds 'Action Comics No. 1' and 'Captain America Comics No. 1' to its vast pop culture ...

The Age of Innocence. By Edith Wharton. Barnes & Noble; 336 pages; $8.95. Penguin Books Ltd; 336 pages; £8.99. Before she began publishing novels, the author wrote about design, particularly interiors ...

In 1829, a wealthy white planter in South Carolina purchased four enslaved Black Americans. One of them was Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson’s great-great-grandfather, a boy called ...

A groundbreaking new book co-written by Bryan Leonard, a University of Wyoming associate professor, blends economics with data-driven historical analysis and offers a trove of new insights into one of ...

In many ways, the conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel has been decades in the making. Ramtin Arablouei, host of NPR's podcast "Throughline," explains how.