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On April 17, 1945, as the war in the Pacific neared its crescendo, a tall nineteen-year-old farm boy from a small town outside Lexington, Tennesee, stood on the deck of the USS Trousdale (AKA-79)

On April 30th, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 million. It's a massive but imprecisely ...

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 ...

There is endless talk of "identity" in contemporary America. It is defined by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, religion, culture, and even by generation. The one thing that seem ...

When the White House invoked the "Immortal Chaplains" to illustrate the history between the United States and Greenland, it touched on a theme emerging in the second Trump administration:

On a frigid morning in December 1812, the remnants of Napoleon's once-mighty Grande Armée staggered across the Berezina River, their uniforms in tatters, their numbers decimated, and thei ...

On July 13, 1793, a young woman and a Girondin sympathizer, Charlotte Corday, walked bravely into 30 Rue des Cordeliers and assassinated the radical and bloodthirsty Jean-Paul Marat. The radical journ ...

Maximilien Robespierre attended the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris when he was eleven years old. He was "a model student" and excelled in his scholastic studies, particul ...

Samuel Huntington's well-known "clash of civilizations" paradigm divides the world into eight distinctive and mutually exclusive cultural zones and predicts that the wars of the futu ...

When Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, he delivered astonishing news: enslaved people in the furthest reaches of the former Confederacy were now free. W ...