In front of a group of Christian conservatives who are part of the so-called Faith and Freedom Coalition, Donald Trump strawman condemned the landslide victories of two New York City Democratic ...

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...

Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

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Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...

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She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn’t sign the Declaration of ...

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I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Jane Calvert has spent 25 years championing John Dickinson, a lesser-known Revolutionary War figure ...