The mondegreen name for the centuries-old symbol first appeared in the 1790s. More than 200 years later, this little piece of punctuation has got a whole day—September 8—dedicated to celebrating its ...

The Library of Congress holds more than 160 million items essential to understanding world history, from a 1507 map with the first mention of the name ‘America’ to oral histories of the COVID-19 ...

When Zlatan says, “I made it out of the hood, that means anyone can make it out too,” he doesn’t say it for applause. He says it like a man who’s been there — who’s seen the smoke, the hunger, the ...