When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Is Donald Trump more like George Washington or King George? Here's how our president is ruling like a monarch.

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Enslaved persons, sailors, and other groups at the bottom of the colonial hierarchy of power rose up against their oppressors. These rebellions struck fear in the heart of rulers everywhere, and ...

“Anti-colonialist” leftists see Mexico as America’s Palestine — and when illegal immigrants and their allies riot, it’s justified resistance they will rightly spread.

Which approach will America take regarding Israel and the Jewish people? Will the extremist views and the polarization ...

Gunga Tavares remembers July 5, 1975, as an unusually hot day when thousands of Cape Verdeans made their way through the ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut off food and medical supplies to the islands. Finally, they deported the ...

NY mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani told listeners of the first mayoral debate, “I believe Israel has a right to exist” — but, ...

Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...

It makes for stark and dark reading.  The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy ...