As Massachusetts celebrates the romanticized 250th anniversary of the battles of Concord and Lexington, we need an honest and ...

America, América” features claims that, far more than their English-speaking contemporaries, Latin Americans were pioneering ...

We celebrate the 1773 Boston Tea Party and ignore the extraordinary 1773 petition for freedom of an enslaved man to the ...

We tend to place ourselves at the center of history and overlook the tragedies we inflict on those targeted by American power ...

The second volume in Pulitzer-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution publishes Tuesday.

Discussions of whether Trumpism is fascist often lose sight of the political stakes of the issue. But like Italian and German ...

Trump has declared a tariff war upsetting the whole planet along with the economy and the savings and family budgets of ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

The chestnut gelding will play Paul Revere’s horse Friday night in Annapolis, a moment when historians and enthusiasts nationwide will hang lanterns to recreate the famous Massachusetts ride and kick ...