In “Taking Manhattan,” Russell Shorto pays close attention to the darker aspects of colonial life on the island at the center ...

On the face of it, the demand sounds like a perfectly reasonable appeal to the world’s conscience – to allow those inadvertently caught in the throes of a great regional war ... us precisely why a ...

60 years ago today, The Sound of Music premiered in movie theaters, featuring the incredible singing performance of 28-year-old Julie Andrews as the spunky ...