Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...