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In December 1892, Capt. Nicholas Lorentzen, his daughter, Lena, and father-in-law were among the passengers aboard the barge Majestic, on a return trip…

Thank Heaven for zombie movies. Now we're at least familiar with the concept of people eating brains. Jokes aside, cannabalism--eating your fellow…

Memorial Day weekend sends the Exchange crew off in search of summertime-type pursuits, just like you. We fill Monday's Exchange with some key interviews…

Damaged family photos — part of photographer Munemasa Takahashi's Lost & Found Project — bridge the past and the present after an earthquake and tsunami struck the coast of Japan a decade ago.

The simple question of whether the U.S. should stay or go was not simple at all. Now Biden's determination to leave Afghanistan has resulted in a bigger mess than he bargained for.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to classify lynching as a federal hate crime. The vote came at the end of Black History Month.

Maybe a third of a million people came to California for the gold rush of 1849, and easily thousands more have come to the West since. Many of them had…

Scientists on five continents are hunting for geological evidence to pinpoint exactly when humans became a major force shaping life on Earth. But settling on the date could unleash a larger debate.

Brownsboro, Ore., rancher Floyd Charley has been described as “the patriarch of 4-H, who like a pebble in the center of a pond, caused a huge ripple…

Early American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African American music. They didn't. And one historian believes we're worse off because of it.