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I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

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In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the ...

Once known as “Jesus Springs,” Colorado Springs helped shape modern evangelical politics in the U.S. Historian William ...

Part of the Ancien Régime’s fall from grace stemmed from the way Parisians communicated amongst themselves, according to ...