A new study from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found major disparities in life expectancy between ...

Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other ...

After World War II, railroads geared up for a boom that didn't happen. What spelled doom for the great passenger trains?

“The United States vs. Ulysses” centers on the case, tried at the Southern District of New York in 1933 ... The backward glance of nearly a century means that contemporary viewers might have little ...

born more than a quarter century after her, never spoke with the accent that is perhaps the most famous regional dialect in the United States, with its elongated vowels and soft “r” sounds.

How long people in the United States lived ... that we have seen during the 20th century.” The bottom five states for life expectancy among women born in 2000, compared to women born in 1900, are: Not ...

Trump’s mixture of racism and hunger for power is setting him on a historical collision course, scholars told HuffPost.

Late 20th century migration surge affects accents ... At the biggest jewelry center in the United States, Alberto Hernandez fired up his machine on a recent day and waited until it glowed bright ...

Late 20th century migration surge affects accents The classical white Southern accent in the Atlanta area and other parts of the urban South peaked with baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 and ...