When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

This story accompanies the article about Lafayette200 events, "Marquis de Lafayette toured Lancaster 200 years ago." ...

In keeping with protocols, it is appropriate to end this drama of trading places with another conceit. At the end of the ...

America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through ...

Kirsch suggests that as the theory of settler colonialism developed, what began as a tool to distinguish between forms of ...

How a public health crisis nearly derailed the American Revolution. George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan.

Americans love French fries, but not all iterations of the fast food staple are created equally. A new study from Seating Masters claims to have determined America's most loved fast food fries ...

A historic French colonial map has emerged from the French National Library, appearing to support Thailand's longstanding claims to the disputed island of Koh Kood, which has become a flashpoint in ...

Coco Gauff roared back from a set down to capture her first Roland Garros title and become the first American woman in a decade to win the French Open. No. 2 Gauff overcame a first-set deficit to ...

Coco Gauff, Chris Evert and Serena Williams are among the American women to win the French Open in the Open Era. (Photos: Getty) The French Open remains one of the hardest Majors to win.