For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

The fight against antisemitism begins with historical truth and remembering the vital role Jews played in building America.

Fourth of July streaming spikes revive classic patriotic films as audiences seek history, nostalgia and Americana.

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

The leading Democratic figure is not only one of the president’s great opponents in Washington, he is also an expert on ...

As the US celebrates its 250th birthday, the official rhetoric of freedom and democracy grows further from the facts of daily ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June, marking a major push by ...

The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to curb birthright citizenship on Monday, ...

Without course correction, experts warn, it cannot be overstated how much of what the country has achieved could be lost.

President Donald Trump has tried many ways to tighten his grip on U.S. elections, from signing executive orders to pushing ...

Hop” (Backbeat Books, 2026). I felt dumb for never making the connection until now. Rap and punk, argues critic Carlo ...

Supreme Court rulings, culture-war politics and renewed nativism reveal a republic still wrestling with the question of who ...