Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 years of Jewish life in the United States, from Colonial times to the present.

A free lunchtime lecture next month will spotlight the Shaker women whose efforts helped preserve a major piece of New York history.

Lycoming College’s 51st Ewing Lecture will host Eric Gonzaba, Ph.D., for a talk entitled, “The Night the Gays Made: American Gay Nightlife after Stonewall,” exploring the blossoming of gay nightlife ...

Longtime Montclair resident Marion Thompson Wright was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in history, but it came at a personal cost.

For women who hoped to become physicians in the mid-1800s, Philadelphia was the place to be. They came from all over the ...

Michigan Senator Stephanie Chang, the first Asian-American woman elected to the Michigan legislature, will present a lecture titled “Identity, Activism and Advancing Change for Women and Girls,” ...

Prof Sakhawat Ali Khan, a guiding light in Bangladesh’s journalism education, died at 85, leaving a legacy of ethics, teaching, and media excellence.

Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life will ...

Highlights include: part one in series The Billionaires Age — the one per cent now owns slightly more than half of the world’s wealth; to examining The Matilda Effect; to the complicated story of the ...

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

What a privilege—and a responsibility—it is for a student to speak about Professor K N Panikkar on the occasion of his passing. Writing about Professor Panikkar ...

Panikkar was among the most articulate critics of attempts to reinterpret history through communal frameworks.