Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

Boscobel House and Gardens, just outside the village, is a meticulously restored Federal-period house museum with gardens overlooking the Hudson. The mansion’s collection of period furniture and ...

Paul Andrew Hutton’s ‘Undiscovered Country’ and Peter Cozzen’s ‘Deadwood’ examine the nation through separate lenses.

Gettysburg Address, the fight against slavery and the battle for freedom provide historical perspective on principles of the Revolution and practice of slavery ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells the story of James A. Garfield, the 20th U.S. President whose 1881 assassination changed ...

Lexington, Missouri stands as living proof that sometimes the most enchanting getaways are hiding just a short drive away, tucked along the banks of the mighty Missouri River about an hour east of ...

Donald Trump is part of a long line of American leaders who bulldozed through established norms when it suited them ...

On July 4th, 2026, America will celebrate its 250th birthday. The United States is the world's oldest and still evolving experiment in democracy.

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

The music biopic genre has been around for about as long as anyone can remember, but it received a breath of fresh air when Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere landed on the 2025 movie ...

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

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