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As the Supreme Court wraps up its annual flurry of blockbuster rulings, it's easy to focus on the winners--the parties who prevailed, the doctrines that triumphed, the justices whose views ...

In Noah Hawley's Fargo, a fictional tale of pervasive crime and tested loyalty, Kansas City mafia hitman Mike Milligan ponders the following:

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a man of many talents whose life provides an interesting pivotal transitional point from the American Revolution on one side of the Atl ...

822 years ago, on August 1st of 1203, crusaders looked on as an elderly blind man and his irresponsible son were crowned Roman Emperors in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the capital of the Christ ...

Hamilton, Gifted Immigrant, Student, and Soldier Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was born in the West Indies on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean, descended from the laird of Grange in Scotlan ...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC) was a patrician aristocrat who entered the army under the general Gaius Marius. In the Roman war against Numidia in North Africa, Sulla was instrumental in defeating ...

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the Constitution conceded to pressure from advocates ...

On May 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened for its opening session in the building that would later become known as Independence Hall. Its organization followed the Battles of Lexington ...

A scrap of paper in the Massachusetts State Archives tells a great story. Dated August 1775, it is an invoice for £11, one shilling (about $2,000 today) submitted to the Massachusetts provi ...

August 8th marks 80 years since the dawn of the atomic age. This is a story about two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and two remarkable men: Jacob Beser and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Beser, a First Lieutena ...