On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the ...

Let’s be honest about the library debate I take issue with the letter by May Grae about the library board. As is usual by the ...

Today in History for July 16: In 622, Prophet Mohammad fled from Mecca, where he was despised and persecuted, to the northern city of Medina, marking the day of beginning of Hegira, the Islamic ...

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Black’s book on Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River raid, launched from Beaufort in June 1863, earned a Pulitzer Prize in ...

Tara Westover ’s memoir is an exposé of her former Mormon life, but it serves as a universal coming-of-age story that ...

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To be perfectly honest, I have not kept up with the teenage travails of The Summer I Turned Pretty over the last few years—but because I love star Lola Tung almost as much as I feel “meh” about the ...