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Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns.

In the Mad Men era of magazine journalism, Virginia Kraft was a globe-trotting writer and a deadly shot with a rifle. Why hasn't anyone heard of her?

She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.

Right-wing radio stations are tied to an increase in conservatism among listeners.

Cecil Brown wants to digitally revive the enslaved antebellum poet George Moses Horton. Can digital technology help reconnect us to the tradition he embodied?

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Almanacs from the Civil War era reveal how two sides of an embattled nation used data from the natural world to legitimize their claims to statehood.

A descendant of concentration camp survivors argues that using the right vocabulary can help clarify the stakes when confronting wartime trauma

A 1990 case from Brown University was the first time a modern university expelled a student for a violation of a "hate speech code.”

The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls.

What made those left-of-the-dial broadcasts so special during the 1980s, ‘90s and 2000s?

On Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”

An interrogation of The New York Times’ archive reveals a sordid record of support for American wars, right-wing dictatorships and U.S.-backed regime-change.

To most of the world, “corn” is “maize,” a word that comes from the Taíno mahizwas. Not for British colonists in North America, though.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Understanding history can help us understand what will be necessary if we’re serious about finally having a more diverse, less exclusionary publishing industry.

How concern about injuries is changing sports.

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

A president’s infamous protestation 50 years ago during Watergate relied on an Old Norse term for things that take a turn.

As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Slips of paper with peculiar regional terms crossed the Atlantic to Oxford and into the pages of a 70-year lexicographical project.

At the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out Israel for its human rights abuses.

One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.

The ultimate semantic receivers, selectors, and transmitters are still us.

Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.

When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.