The partisan press, which dominated the early 1800s, has returned in the modern era, with 69 percent of U.S. adults having ...

Historical fiction should not be a tool to justify modern biases or to create villains or heroes; it should challenge us to ...

Jan. 17 marks the 105th anniversary of America's ban on alcohol. Here's what you need to know about the failed attempt and it ...

By 1804, dueling had become an American fixture. And for another thirty years or more, its popularity would continue to grow. Like many early American customs, dueling was imported. Starting in ...

Despite periods of intense polarization, the U.S. has always found a way to move forward, writes columnist Maple Buescher.

discussing how people across social classes understood the momentous history of their day The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British ...

The Tom Hanks-narrated NBC natural history epic The Americas is coming to the BBC. The show is made by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit in association with Universal Television Alternative ...

A Maritime History.” “No longer was the Gulf a Spanish sea,” Sledge wrote. “It was an American sea.” That dominance continued when the United States discovered the treasures beneath the ...