Now a fixture of everyday life, the coffee table has its roots in a far more formal past, shaped by global trade, changing ...

A new book tells of how leprosy became a byword for segregation and fear, while the 200,000 people newly diagnosed a year are ...

Called "The American Story," the new permanent exhibition will guide museumgoers through two million historic documents and artifacts ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change ...

Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of “The Warmth of Other Suns.” This personal reflection is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a ...