Long before becoming a sweet snack, graham crackers were created as part of a 19th-century moral movement aimed at curbing lust and promoting purity through diet. This surprising story blends food ...

Swedes could only buy alcohol from government-owned retailers. Now the government is loosening the rules - but there's a ...

According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...

Donald Trump faces a more immediate historical burden that has plagued so many presidents: the "second term curse".

A commission of inquiry in Victoria concluded that British colonialists' treatment of the state's First Peoples in the 1830s ...

Mizoram's remarkable literacy feat was driven by adult learners like 54-year-old Laltinkimi of Tinghmun village, who, after ...

On July 26, the Erie Canal Museum’s new walking tour, “Burned Over: The Erie Canal and Fire Walking Tour,” is a quarter ...

Asia is not a singular story to be decoded, Xiaowen Zhu argues, but a plural condition to be encountered on its own terms.

Monday marked an interesting moment in the global coffee scene: Luckin Coffee officially opened its doors in Manhattan, New ...