Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...

When government officials were found taking bribes from oil industry bigshots, the scandal changed American politics forever.

Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American ...

Growing up in New York City, Paula Hughbanks thought her uncle was a star. Meeting celebrities, traveling around the world — she thought her uncle Anthony Lupia had the life as he worked as a social ...

In his upcoming book How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr sets out to tell the history of the Greater United States, what lies beyond the mainland. He traces the legacy of empire to the U.S.’s ...

I wanted to write a story about the changing perceptions of the United States among Europeans. I didn’t know that I would ...

The rule that no president can serve more than two full terms became part of the U.S. Constitution in 1951, after President ...

It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers ...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...