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A national spotlight on Colorado’s gang activity is raising concerns that newcomers are bringing new violence. But experts say the Denver metro's gang history is mostly homegrown.

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The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the ...

"I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me," Dickens ...

Maybe history ignored them, but here, they are rightfully honored.” The essays mean the world to Sosa. “It’s so validating to ...

Slavery has been among the most ubiquitous of all human institutions, across time and place, from earliest history until, some would argue, the present day. This new four-volume History is the first ...

Readers are asked to prepare for a "gut-wrenching journey into the heart of Chicano culture and history" by Henry Barajas, Rachel Merrill, and Lee Loughridge, set against the backdrop of the Zoot ...