NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, about the significance of the Cardinals electing the first pope from the United States.

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican's powerful ...

Kahron Spearman On her first album post-boygenius breakthrough, Lucy Dacus builds a tension of new love. Fourth LP Forever Is ...

Newspapers like the Massachusetts Spy published bold, new ideas — and the shortcomings of their British leaders.

Geopolitics and electricity are now closely interconnected in today’s world. In 2023, the global electricity industry was projected to generate an astounding $2.8 trillion in revenue, highlighting the ...

A Village Voice essay looks at Mario Puzo's first novel, "The Dark Arena" (1955), which gazes unflinchingly into the abyss of the Holocaust.

The American Revolutionary War, also called the War of Independence, was fought in North America and took place from 1775 to ...

The start of the Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence, can be traced to one manuscript. WEMU’s Caroline ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour PBS documentary, is set to premiere in November, months before the nation's semiquincentennial.

(THE CONVERSATION) On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row ...