A monument in “old” St. Joseph Cemetery in Bedford is undergoing restoration. Along with patching, repainting, landscaping, and installing new lights, two new flags were hoisted up: an American flag ...

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

No historian should be able to answer the question on good history without a degree of trepidation, ambivalence, and ...

This November, we proudly observe Military Family Appreciation Month and Veterans Day, two opportunities to honor the courage ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Next week, California voters will go to the polls to decide whether the state should authorize mid-decade redistricting to counter gerrymandering in Republican states and keep Democrats competitive in ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial ...

He never came home. He was 26 years old with a wife and young daughter who would never see him again, never know fully what ...

If Michigan wants today’s kids and teens to grow into responsible citizens, schools must require a thematic approach that ...