Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on foreign gold miners that was explicitly designed to exploit Chinese labor. Over the next ...

The southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital after Israeli airstrikes. Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times Near the Strait of Hormuz An image released by the Royal Thai Navy shows a vessel ...

It wound up taking place two years later than expected, but University Historian James O’Toole has delivered his “last lec­ture” at Boston College. O’Toole, the Clough Millennium Pro­fessor of History ...