Six weeks into the worst energy crisis in modern world history, the case for energy sovereignty is being written in real time — in the price of every barrel of oil, every cargo of liquefied natural ...

A new book by historian Nathaniel Philbrick makes the case that the James Marshall’s 1848 discovery set in motion events from the Civil War to the rise of Silicon Valley ...

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Premiering at 10 p.m. ET on July 27, the new installment examines World War II through the lens of engineering and technological innovation, exploring how the race to build bigger, faster and more ...

Scholars have long debated what sparked Europe’s economic surge in the mid-18th century. That debate took center stage recently at the University of Chicago, where an expert panel from the Harris ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

The opium poppy looks delicate and innocuous. But for Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer, it is “one of the most powerful beings that humans have encountered in their time on Earth”. Mr Ghosh’s elegant ...

Winston Churchill’s career as a student was, by his own account, thoroughly undistinguished. “In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn ...