New research on the significant gender imbalance in Hollywood reveals long-trends in female representation in the U.S. movie industry, specifically a sharp decline associated with the era known as “studio system” from about 1922 to 1950.
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Researchers have made new discoveries about the earliest history of humanity’s family tree, thanks to a brand-new research technique and an 800,000-year-old tooth.
Read moreWeighing grand jury secrecy against the historical significance of unreleased records about a 1946 mob lynching in Georgia, the en banc 11th Circuit ruled Friday that grand jury transcripts from the unsolved Moore’s Ford case cannot be unsealed.
Read moreStay at home. Safer at home. Shelter in place. On pause. Lockdown. Shutdown. The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced a recalibration of familiar language and raised questions of how leaders should communicate with their constituents in a public health crisis.
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To gauge the impact that fleeing extremist ideologs have on the communities they move into, researchers turned to an unlikely source: an Austrian phonebook.
Read moreBob Levinson, the longest-held captive in U.S. history and former intelligence community member, died in Iranian custody, his family and the White House said in a statement Wednesday.
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For most Americans alive today, the idea of shared national sacrifice is a collective abstraction, a memory handed down from a grandparent or passed on through a book or movie.
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In a case that stars the fearsome pirate Blackbeard’s prized ship Queen Anne’s Revenge, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled states cannot be sued in federal court for copyright infringement.
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In the 1930s, America experienced the Dust Bowl, an environmental and socioeconomic disaster that made matters worse during the Great Depression.
Read moreLinda Fairstein, former head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit, claims Netflix and Ava DuVernay defamed her in the movie “When They See Us,” about the prosecution of the Central Park Five rape and assault case, in federal court.
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North Carolina’s Office of State Archaeology received a donated piece of driftwood last week that was collected by a beachgoer decades ago and could date back to the Civil War-era, according to experts.
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New chemical research into one of Europe’s earliest communities sheds more light into the group’s complexities of class and social hierarchy in the Bronze Age.
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Millions of years ago during the Middle Jurassic Period, the Isle of Skye in Scotland was home to a large community of dinosaurs that traversed along the ancient coastline, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.
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The discovery of a 14th century underground burial site deep in Gabon’s tropical forest may shed light on a little-known period in Africa’s history.
Read moreJohn Shen-Sampas, who says he is “the literary executor for the estate of Jack Kerouac and owns the copyright to all Jack Kerouac’s works,” sued the Northport-East Northport (N.Y.) Public Library for a handwritten manuscript and microfilm, in Suffolk County Court.
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A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of Corsica.
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Britain’s Royal Mint on Monday unveiled a 15.4 lb gold coin with the highest face value in its 1,100-year history in honor of the latest James Bond film.
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Historians will begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious modern pope on Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust.
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Adolf Hitler’s admiration for German composer Richard Wagner is well-documented, but that the Nazi dictator attempted to write an opera himself will come as a surprise to many.
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