This week’s "World History Minute" with historian John Schmidt goes back to 1683 for a pivotal moment in Western history - the Battle of Vienna. Schmidt is author of the book On This Day in Chicago ...

Vienna hadn’t heard such music in years—and it was all because the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s two conductors hated each other so. Wilhelm Furtwängler had the edge in prestige but Herbert von ...

“A Thimbleful of Grass, the Siege of Vienna, Noon Marks, Some Elaborate Oysters, and a Very Old Bee” by Emily Maxwell was published in the print edition of the November 30, 1963, issue of The New ...