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From medieval medicine to 18th century English "crack," gin has come a long way. But according to Richard Barnett, author of The Book of Gin, now is "the best time in the last 500 years to be drinking" it.

To build support for his mass deportation campaign, President Trump and the White House have frequently shared images and used language presenting immigrants as invaders and criminals.

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous blues trail. Civil rights leaders say many are hungry for more context around the origins of the blues.

In the early 1940s when the Army Air Force faced a shortage of pilots, it launched an experimental program to train new ones — the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

More than a week after one of the worst train accidents in Spain's history, many questions remain unanswered, and survivors struggle to move on.

Some people use sarcasm jokingly. But funnily enough, we tend not to find it witty when we're on the receiving end.

It may not be a far stretch to compare what’s happening today in Venezuela to what happened in 1989 in Panama.

Steve Stern's slice of the mythical South is the Pinch, a hardscrabble immigrant neighborhood of northwest Memphis where the Torah trumps the King James Bible and the rabbis have magical powers.

Maps do more than help us get around, Simon Garfield makes evident in his tour through the history and science of map-making. They can unlock vast wealth, solve mysteries of science, project political power — even trace the outlines of the divine.

It’s been 100 years since the 1924 Immigration Act was signed into law. It shaped the U.S. immigration system and established racial quotas.