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It’s no secret that beauty technology has soared to new heights in recent years. Shelves are now stocked with a whole new breed of innovative formulations--gels, creams, liquids and more. But ...

Odds are you know the lyrics to every song from the Oscar-winning Disney Animation Studios film "Frozen." Disney has been busy keeping its franchise hot long after the traditional Blu-ray/DVD…

Tom Brokaw confirmed on the “Today” show Thursday morning that he recently got some very good health news regarding his cancer diagnosis: The treatments are working and moving in a positive direction. The former “N...

If you are looking for the perfect vine for a trellis or arbor then look no further than the passionflower. Not only will they climb with abandon, but they will…

As a new school year begins, American parents should enthusiastically join first lady Michelle Obama's campaign for healthier school lunches - a campaign based on sound nutritional science with the…

With so much else going on this summer, it's taken a while for people outside the United Kingdom to realize that an important national referendum is about to happen. But inside the UK, and especially in Scotland -- where...

When she moved to Brooklyn in 2011, Caroline Tompkins quickly got tired of being catcalled. It felt as though whenever she left her apartment, she would be harassed by men on the street. "I eventually realized that simpl...

Sarah Herron won the hearts of viewers during Sean Lowe‘s season of The Bachelor. Her warm and caring personality immediately drew attention from Lowe, but as other connections grew stronger, she was sent home in the m...

You may have noticed that when news broke that "Gilmore Girls" would finally be available on Netflix Instant starting Oct. 1, there were a lot of exclamation points. And all-caps freakouts. And really, really excited gif...

At the beginning of the summer, I went to Bushwick Open Studios to view ever-evolving creations by emerging artists. After an exhausting day of walking and looking, ready to return to the other side of Brooklyn without m...

If planning a trip is hard, getting the various logistics locked down is a waking nightmare. The rise of travel websites has made this chore more manageable, but what about when you're on the go? No matter where you are,...

Welcome to "Moving Image," our weekly roundup of beautiful photographs that tell stories from around the globe. While technology and innovation is connecting us to people and ideas that are worlds away, it can also disco...

The hot months can be hard on style-conscious professionals. Here's a sure-fire way to stay cool in the heat.

After struggling for many years with my health, I was beyond thrilled to find out in January that my husband and I were expecting our second child. I had been in remission from my autoimmune disease for three years and t...

We love a good rescue and that's exactly what John gave this Heywood Wakefield Gateleg table. His journey included Craigslist, ebay, lots of research and even more elbow grease but his results will blow you away.

Most of us associate director Ken Burns with the best in documentaries. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History can now be added to his list of stunning accomplishments. The documentary is the first to blend the life stories...

John Stauffer Author and professor of English and the history of American civilization at Harvard University. The inaugural audience Inauguration Day, March 4, 1865, was bleak and rainy in Washington, but the mood was ce...

On a rainy night in early 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton arrived in Savannah, Ga. -- which the Union had captured weeks earlier -- with a question: What should become of newly free black people? It was a question t...

The residents of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were in for the worst the Civil War could unleash on them in the autumn of 1864. The war was coming to their doorstep. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the new commander of the Union a...

The heavy steel army trunk that moved with my father all his life was still padlocked when my sister and I came to clean out his apartment in Napa, Calif., 18 months ago. Like the black onyx arrowhead collection of his N...

In the autumn of 1863, a Union general with a sandy-colored beard and a piercing gaze produced a grim assessment of conditions in the South that foreshadowed one of the Civil War's most controversial campaigns.

By a "Royal Mile," Edinburgh, Scotland is the motherlode of all festivals. Playing host to a dozen internationally renowned festivals, the capital of the tartan-clad country doesn't shirk from its title of cultural and i...