In The News: Department of History

The New Indian Express

Engagement watches are a fresh post-pandemic trend as people become more aware of unconventional choices in relationships.

The Tribune-Democrat

Football accounts for about one-third of the business for sports betting, meaning the start of the NFL season will likely translate into a jump in sports wagering activity after a summer slowdown, an industry analyst said Thursday.

Associated Press

More than half of the United States now offers legal sports betting, just three years after it was allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

NewsNation

More than half of the United States now offers legal sports betting, just three years after it was allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

KNPR News

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, prompted a sharp decline in Las Vegas tourism and a steep increase in security.

KNPR News

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, prompted a sharp decline in Las Vegas tourism and a steep increase in security.

Palm Springs Life Magazine

Intimate performances once radiated the essence of Palm Springs cool.

KSNV-TV: News 3

After nearly 20 years, what started with retaliation following the 9/11 terror attacks ended with a chaotic evacuation and a Taliban takeover.

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

From the moment that Tsars as well as hierarchs realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians, the sacrament of penance in the Russian empire became a political tool, a devotional exercise, a means of education, and a literary genre.

BBC World Service

Many of us are preparing to go back into the office but after more than a year of working from home for a lot of people, have we forgotten how to dress professionally?

The Independent

‘You do everything that we’ve already done and we’re not that impressed,’ says one millennial.

The Irish Echo

In a recent essay in the Irish Echo, Cian T. McMahon wrote, “Troubled by the sight of asylum seekers taking their chances in unsafe boats upon the Mediterranean Sea in recent years, John Roche of the Irish Red Cross has said that until European governments find ways to address the crises plaguing many countries in North Africa, ‘desperate people will continue to risk their lives on these coffin ships.’