He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while ...

Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

Gladiator and Gladiator II have little to do with the Roman past. But they have a great deal to do with the American present.

Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.

From the beginning, Longfellow made a point to include female VLSC lifesavers at exhibitions and carnivals, believing that women and girls in the audience would be inspired to see members of their ...

Donald Yacovone is an Associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University and an Athenæum member. Oompa-Loompa illustration by Joseph Schindelman ...

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

Perhaps the greatest side plot in Season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton involves the sexual education of the Featherington sisters. Overbearing mama Lady Portia Featherington (Polly Walker) is ...

The Sixties counterculture, its beliefs and practices, its odyssey into the Seventies, and its many legacies as it became integrated into mainstream culture help explain the United States today.

The chilling details of the U.S. military's plan to use the very scientists who had been essential to Hitler’s war effort.

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.