In his latest series, Ken Burns, veteran of renowned documentaries on the Civil and Vietnam wars, tells the story of the ordinary men and women who took on the mighty British Empire to found a new ...

SCHULYERVILLE, N.Y. — The Turning Point Parade and Festival returns from Sunday through Saturday, Aug. 9. The week offers more than a dozen free public programs designed to celebrate Saratoga’s ...

Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, but also published a four-part memoir that stands as a chronicle of post-war French intellectual culture. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities ...

The Islamic conquest of Persia unfolded during a moment of deep instability within the Sassanian Empire. Years of war with ...

It’s a very dark day in America. There are moments in history that you will remember what you were doing when the news broke. For millions of Americans, the September 11 terrorist attacks and the ...

Learning in real time: the development and implementation of air power in the First World War / Tami Biddle -- Achieving air ascendancy: challenge and response in British strategic air defence, ...

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.” I was 30 ...