In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

On September 11, 1851, a small farming community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, fought what many consider the first battle of the Civil War. These neighbors united against slavery in the ...

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With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname “Moses” all over again—and became the first woman in U.S. history to lead a major military expedition. As clouds flitted across ...

Shareholders of the DallasNews Corporation, the parent company of The Dallas Morning News and creative marketing agency Medium Giant, on Tuesday approved a pending merger with Hearst, a privately held ...

For four straight years, Union and Confederate soldiers battled during the bloodiest war in American history. Both sides suffered unprecedented casualties, and the severe lack of infrastructure made ...

When Malcolm Little was 6 years old, his father's body was found lying across the town's trolley tracks. The death was ruled accidental, but Malcolm believed his father had been killed by white ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...