Lecturer Colleen Plimpton provided an introduction to her lecture about how plants were used by colonists in early America and during the Revolutionary War as medicines, supplies, food, and repellants ...

As I write this article on a sunny autumn afternoon, 1.2 million tourists are quickly invading my local city of Salem, Massachusetts. Many come for the haunted ...

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.