AL-ANON —A support group for friends and family of alcoholics and addicts meeting at 7 p.m. every Wednesday in the basement of Lebanon United Methodist Church in Elk Creek, Virginia. For more ...

HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...

Watford was well served by braziers and ironmongers, the first being Hugo Spillman in 1270. He and his wife Joanna were recorded in the St ...

The boat is modeled after the watercraft used 250 years ago during Benedict Arnold's ill-fated campaign up the Kennebec River ...

Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

The colorful riverside community of Ballinger’s Switch has along since disappeared. And no doubt, the authorities in Lee ...

Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

From Washington to Trump, every era has redefined the rules of federal employment. If you could set the clock, which version ...

One inducement was that the work, once complete, would enhance his reputation (he was nearly 40 and still struggling), and win him other commissions. In terms of research he was well equipped.

The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have forced people in positions of power—namely, the white men who dominate institutional leadership roles—to realize they must personally step up ...

One of the men convicted of murder, Mr. Phan, had shot and killed a 19-year-old, Michael Holtmeyer, during a fight in a parking lot next to a fishing pier in Tacoma, Wash., in 2000.

Two men working for a violence interrupter group who were involved in a north Minneapolis shooting earlier this year have been indicted by a grand jury, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H ...