Thomas Jefferson, the third president, was born on April 13, 1743. Several years ago, my wife Louise and I had celebrated by ...

The U.S. may carry the biggest sticks on the seas, but does it have the most? Here's how the largest national navies in the ...

Eighteen shipyards on four continents, 22,000 employees of which over 11,000 are in Italy. The numbers of Fincantieri, a ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

Harpers Ferry sits at the meeting point of three states—West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland—and also at the junction of ...

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Two lanterns lit the steeple of a Boston church in 1775, a rallying cry that gave us a new nation. On April 18, Arizona will light that fire again.

Pat Kelsey led the Louisville’s basketball team back to national relevance and the NCAA Tournament in his first season as coach. The school rewarded him for ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

If there’s one place where interest in William McKinley has remained unwavering, it's in the 25th president's native ...

Dr. Adam Ratner has heard a lot of myths and misunderstandings about measles in his decades as a New York City pediatric ...