By the first decade of the 20th century, dietary limitations and food scarcities common to the pioneer residents of the Lake Superior copper region had been relegated to the pages of frontier history. Two-masted cargo schooners had given way (although some still remained in service on the ...

One of the biggest reasons American politics have turned upside down over the past few years is growing numbers of Americans do not think leaders represent their interests. That simple sentiment underlies nearly every recent problem in American politics. Yet for some reason, almost nobody has ...

When federal agents removed top-secret documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last week, they carried with them a search warrant citing possible violations of the Espionage Act. Ah, the Espionage Act! How that must have sounded comfortingly confirmatory to ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: You’ve argued against veterinary ivermectin. It’s the same ivermectin that’s safely used for adults. Work out dose per kilo weight of patient. Why pretend that it’s not safe, when it’s a drug safely used for 70 years? It is better than remdesivir and other drugs that ...

I hated college history. The textbooks were mostly about dead white men, Abigail Adams excepted. The lectures were boring. I didn’t see how any of it related to my young life and future plans. Historian David McCullough, who died this week at age 89, helped change my attitude toward history ...

By 1900, the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company had become one of the most complex non-ferrous metal mining plants in the United States. It had been built upon the single richest copper lode in the United States, east of the Mississippi River and was wealthy enough to satisfy its stockholders, ...