And Canada seemed an easy target. It had a population of only 500,000, while the U.S. was home to 7.5 million, and Britain ...

The Civil War’s superior firepower in national lore isn’t the only source of 1812’s obscurity. Here’s another: The 200-year-old war was mostly a debacle, with unsettling parallels to our ...

The life story of William “Billy” Flora, a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero ... British officers at the scene and other primary sources to write a detailed battle description.

Most historians look back on the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act of 1930 as a mistake that made a bad economic climate much worse.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Federal judges in New York and Texas on Wednesday took legal action to block the government from moving ...

the policy was about finding sources of revenue for the government while also protecting American producers from foreign competition. After the War of 1812 disrupted U.S. trade with Great Britain ...

Those pirates attacked U.S. ships as well, but their primary victims ... Adams to fight the “Quasi War” with France and President Madison to fight the War of 1812 with Britain.

World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines is not my area of specialization. What little I know of it is from textbook history, the work of the eminent historian Ricardo T. Jose, and ...

thanks in part to his quirky musical riff on another unusual literary source, the English epic poem Beowulf. “To my horror, when I suggested a ‘War and Peace’ musical, they said yes,” he ...