Edward III ascends to the English throne after the abdication of Edward II. 1533: Henry VIII marries his second ...

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The birth of cinema in England was a long ... bringing an immediacy to this new format, one which even Thomas Edison couldn’t have predicted — he famously thought no one would want to sit ...

Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even ...

A bipartisan bill to allow proxy voting for members of Congress who are pregnant or with newborns is gaining momentum in the ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

While living in Los Angeles as a newlywed in 1986, Jana Kirlin Brownell got a harrowing call from her mother. Her father, ...

Happy Collecting! Building upon his work with the telegraph and telephone, Thomas Edison, in 1877, conceived of a device to record sound. He began by experimenting with embossing sound vibrations onto ...