Lowell, Massachusetts, has turned 200! Over the birthday year, after nearly 33 years of teaching history at UMass Lowell, I ...

Despite the name, Irish coffee really became popular in the United States. Here's how it rose from regional favorite to a ...

Ours is a history in which robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into warring factions. Sound ...

During the year of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Paul Meany reflects on how the American Declaration ...

I agreed with this idea for a while, especially because I never knew my immigrant ancestors. As time went on, I felt more skeptical about this notion, considering that the city I grew up in — ...

One of the best places to see the city for the first time is from a towering suite at The Four Seasons, Embarcadero, a grand hotel with stylish modern suites (the bathrooms are sumptuous as the main ...

On January 26, 1907, John Millington Synge's “The Playboy of the Western World” opened at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. The production caused such a fuss that projectiles were flung at the stage in ...

Even when custody is not decided by a court, the effects on the child are profound, as in the case of Rebecca Walker, the ...

New York-based cocktail historian David Wondrich had most recently finished editing an 860-plus-page compendium of knowledge ...

Instead of censorship, we have an abundance of distortion, lies and denial, as history, or what purports to be history, is ...