While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

Uncover the complex history of Halloween—from ancient Celtic rituals to modern-day trick-or-treating shaped by imperialism, ...

When a museum displays your ancestors’ relics behind glass, that glass is never neutral. It is a barrier erected by power — a ...

We know where the lion of constitutional originalism stood on the issue. We don't know how many of his admirers will have his ...

A theft from a museum of empire may look like payback, yet the spoils will still enrich the same world that built it.

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

Legends never die. Maybe that's why some of these Revolutionary War ghosts just can't seem to find their way to the afterlife ...

For two centuries, Americans have dreamed of pushing our borders northward, from the War of 1812 to the globalist fantasies of the twentieth century. Each time, our national brothers and sisters in ...

Previously known as New Amsterdam and formerly in the hands of the Dutch, in 1664 the settlement, now known as New York, ...