What have New Yorkers lost from the Eric Adams saga? A stable government, whether they supported it or railed against it— and some stability of expectation in how governance might happen, former ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential in United States history. Gates and the historians he interviews use that ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...

Caspar David Friedrich at the Met Family Films Face the Parent–Child Revolution A look back at Hollywood’s prophecy of its conflagration. It’s been 50 years since John Schlesinger’s film ...

I would talk about my fear that we would have a wildland-initiated fire that would sweep down into a dense community and set off a house-to-house conflagration. And I did not expect that we would ...

The map below shows inspections of buildings conducted by Cal Fire following the Eaton Fire along with the wildland-urban interface, illustrating just how destructive a major conflagration can be ...

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(Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) The Palisades and Eaton fires took a toll on two very different economic classes of music industry professionals during the biblical conflagration.

Rising winds threaten to spread the conflagration to suburban neighborhoods. Residents nearby were ordered to evacuate or warned to be ready to leave quickly ahead of the fire. The blaze ...

The greatness of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel lies in its details. But they are often overlooked. By Sarah Churchwell On 10 April 1925, the day The Great Gatsby was published, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote ...

If you’ve ever wondered why trees will often be standing even after a wildfire has destroyed nearby homes, fire officials are offering an explanation. “The answer lies in the difference ...