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Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

The quintessential superhero has always stood for truth and justice, but the final part of his catchphrase has morphed to ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

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Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...