Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

Why Cults Are As American As Apple Pie” has us thinking about cults. The Manson Family and Branch Davidians come to mind.

There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

The Bible contains some explicit genocidal narratives, and over time, some religious Zionists have wielded these stories to advocate for the destruction of the Palestinians.

The roots of modern-day New York City— its dizzying cultural diversity and capitalist might—lie in its Dutch origins.

The sizes of all three states were influenced by colonial backgrounds, with Rhode Island's foundations ... The contrast ...

With the rising popularity of pickleball, a look back at two other, even bigger pursuits: billiards and bowling.

A few weeks ago a story of mine about the Stockbridge Indians appeared, and now we turn to the Brothertown Indians, who had a ...

When the British took control of Florida in 1763, St. Augustine already had extensive Spanish-built defenses, but British ...

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...