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 ...

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

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

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

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

The word deadline has a dark origin, the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s website says, dating back to prisons in the U.S. Civil ...

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

Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar ...

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 ...

Breakfast dining chain Denny's continues to reduce its restaurant footprint as some of its underperforming franchisees close locations amid weaker customer traffic and higher operating costs. Fewer ...

Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed the man who wouldn't sign the Declaration of Independence — the lawyer and statesman John ...