It’s a short trip across a bridge to get to a 413-acre parcel of landfill — Rikers Island, New York City’s most notorious lockup — situated like a 19th-century ... has no use for the ...

While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Now, the eldest member of the dynasty, Elzear de Sade, has said the family are no longer ashamed of their controversial ancestor and has reclaimed the title of marquis which has not been used ...

The writer will also be presenting two talks at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival: European Travel Skills at 2 p.m. Feb. 5 and Travel as a Political Act at 3 p.m. Feb. 6 (the festival, taking place ...

In the abstract, all musicals are weird. People don’t just start singing at dramatic moments in real life, so the genre ...

This list names writers who are all contemporaries of one another, born in the last decade or so of the 19th century ... conversation around Hoult and her use of the novel as a genre to showcase ...

For example, Natchez, Mississippi, the cotton-growing capital of the 19th century, had more millionaires than any ... Article Sources Investopedia requires writers to use primary sources to support ...

They smear their bodies with a layer of ash, wear heavy coils of matted hair on their head, hold tridents or any weapon, and smoke marijuana through a pipe ... was famously celebrated in the late 19th ...