The exhibit invites the public to explore lesser-known history about our nation’s beginnings and the diverse experiences of ...

With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...

In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies gathered in the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. They quickly hammered out a ...

The Founders abhorred a judiciary more loyal to the Crown than to the rule of law. But now the independent system they ...

Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted ...

The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...

Held in the relatively stable northeastern state of Pennsylvania on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the country’s worst ...

So much of our nation’s history is tied to this great city, and today, we mark another important chapter with the 250th ...

Presidential candidate’s potential ties to an Irish slave owner complicate narratives around colonial legacies and the proper ...

More and more cultural institutions are finding ways to atone for their forebears’ past atrocities through art.

RIP honeycreeper birds, Mariana fruit bat of Guam, Bachman’s warbler and the rest of the 21 species lost to extinction in the ...

By Nigel Westmaas (This is a summarised version of a paper delivered at the Guyana Institute of Historical Research in June ...