“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...

For many of us, the realization that people in power, regardless of political party, would belittle, name-call and seek ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

For example, the U.S. is also yielding hard power around the world. The pullback appears to be more than a simple turn away ...

Professors Beverly Gage, Joanne Freeman and David Blight will tackle the entirety of American history in the class dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the independence.

The Nationhood Lab recently released survey results that found a majority of Americans share a common view that the U.S. is ...

U.S. tensions should aim at convincing American citizens that the idea of annexing Canada is a betrayal of U.S. values ...

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

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote in the darkening days of December 1776, when the American ...

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