American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility.
Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.
The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.
The discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians
A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.
It's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.
The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, the thirty-first.
Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.