The long occupation of Haiti began with a drumbeat from the bank that became Citigroup, decades of diplomatic correspondence and other records show.

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.

The less known story of Richard Nixon and his genuine love and care for his hometown team, the New York Mets.

The shortage is a calamity—not a victory for breastfeeding.

The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.

Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.

Kristen Green’s "The Devil’s Half Acre" recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.