History's great powers rose on innovation, dominated through trade, then crumbled under peripheral wars. As US strikes on ...

Evacuation Day commemorates March 17, 1776, when British troops withdrew from Boston. The breakthrough came when Gen. George Washington fortified Dorchester Heights with artillery hauled from Fort ...

A mission to seize or destroy Iran’s nuclear material would be one of the riskiest military operations in modern American history.

In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds.

As the nation's 250th birthday approaches, you can journey through the past with this historic bar crawl guide.

This episode compresses the history of the United States into 45 seconds using Google Earth, tracing the nation’s expansion from thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast to a continental and global ...

Everyone is so concerned with how the war with Iran will end that few people have considered how it started. That consideration would reveal that the conflict has deep historical roots and that the ...

Science Textbook Controversies “In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of the state’s public schools. The guidelines ...

In two weeks the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the term’s vitally important birthright ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of President James Madison—the Father of our Constitution and intellectual architect of the American Founding, whose ...

Americans living in the territories reflect on their relationship with U.S. as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary.

The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” ...