After he and his brother join them in New York, the novel opens out into a more conventional consideration of rootlessness ...

Haiti's leaders probably produced the pamphlet to mail to other governments and international newspapers, says Deborah Jenson, a Duke professor who has studied the U.S. publication of Haitian ...

Outrageous? Yes. But a United States of all Americas and including Greenland would be the first truly planetary North-South ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy. pharmaphorum looks at its evolution over the centuries. The roots of the ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

Ain Gordon’s “If She Stood” is an immersive theatrical experience in which the performance space is transformed into a 19th century Quaker meeting, the time and place that gave birth to the ...

Margaret Prior. As a member of the American Female Moral Reform Society (AFMRS), a group dedicated to preventing prostitution in cities in the early and mid-19th century, Prior was uniquely ...

Tracy Kidder tries to be a “good guest in the lives of the people he writes about.” He did this during years of research while he shadowed Dr. Jim O’Connell, who delivers health care to the rough ...

A University of Rochester graduate student is considering moving to the 19th Ward for its affordability and proximity to campus—but has concerns about safety after hearing mixed reviews.

Politics / Hundreds of Venezuelan men have been spirited away to a hell outside of the reach of habeas corpus rulings. It is ...

I’m an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, writing about foreign and domestic issues. I often report from around the world, but I’m also very interested in how we fix the rifts in ...

Armored vehicles used by Kenyan police rumble through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The vehicles are part of the United States’ more than $600 million in contributions to the U.N.-backed ...