As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American ...

In his upcoming book How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United States, what lies beyond the mainland. He traces the legacy of empire to the U.S.’s ...

Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...

It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...

Growing up in New York City, Paula Hughbanks thought her uncle was a star. Meeting celebrities, traveling around the world — she thought her uncle Anthony Lupia had the life as he worked as a social ...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is ...

In broad sections starting with Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in 1492 to the present, Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States (2024) by J. Albert Mann explores the ...