US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

Shakespeare’s character Antonio in “The Tempest” says, “What’s past is prologue.” Learn from history or suffer from the ignorance of it, writes guest columnist Bob Sheridan, a retired English teacher ...

Vladislaw Zubok’s sweeping history of the period, The World of the Cold War, may be timely, but it’s weakened by its peculiar ...