Impress your friends at this year’s Fourth of July party with these five surprisingly true stories from American history.
The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a ...
Braun Professor of American Jewish History Emeritus at Brandeis University. He also is the past president of the Association ...
A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...
In Jamestown, Virginia, one of the most important places in American history is in a race against time from rising waters ...
From Betsy Ross and Paul Revere to George Washington's teeth, some of America's most enduring stories don't survive a ...
“Don’t know much about history . . .,” goes the famous song. It’s an apt motto for the Common Core’s elementary school curriculum. And it’s becoming a serious problem. A 2014 report by the National ...
In 1939, more than 120 years after the first photograph ever was taken, Robert Cornelius set up a camera in the back of his family’s store and took what is believed to be the very first photographic ...
From Carl Reiner’s toupee to Carrie Bradshaw’s laptop, Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History explores comedy in ...
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