But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

Although the fact is often forgotten, the American colonists were not the only people who faced a political crisis in the ...

We need leaders who tell us hard truths while insisting that the present state of our politics is not permanent.

Bowling Green is the oldest park in New York City. The park was established in 1733 as, well, a bowling green, and leased ...

A new Boston museum exhibit examines the American Revolution from the perspective of enslaved and free Black people. Black ...

A wax sculptor who smuggled letters to America and am enslaved portrait artist were among the patriots whose stories are less ...

As the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a leading historian talks about why it ...

Compared to the dictators and totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, British rule in 1776 seems almost mild, but there was a deeper political conflict.

For decades, women’s health has long been underrepresented in clinical research – understudied, oversimplified, and forced to fit models built around male biological averages. Conditions shaped by ...

Sometimes the best things in life really are free, and they’re hiding in plain sight in Kokomo. The Elwood Haynes Museum is ...