The American Revolution transformed thirteen colonies into an independent nation. Fueled by political tensions, taxation disputes, and calls for liberty, the conflict reshaped world history. This ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, two works offer valuable, fresh views of the American Revolution.

Family lore has it that Irving got into some sort of heated disagreement with Cornelius, and got revenge by bestowing the Van ...

Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.

Jesse Jackson, the Martin Luther King protégé whose two bids for the U.S. presidency highlighted a lifelong fight for social and economic justice for all Americans, has died at age 84, his family said ...

Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, Jesse Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a major following.

Marvel heroes travel back to the American Revolution in 1776 #4 to fight a time-bending sorceress and save the rebellion — and existence itself.

A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” ...

This sweeping timeline covers 2,600 years of revolutions, from the fall of kings in ancient Rome to the uprisings that dismantled empires, ended slavery, and spread modern democracy. It’s a rapid, ...

Oil is so embedded in daily life that it often goes unnoticed. But before the mid-19th century, it played a very small role ...

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

At an hour when Ahmad and Mohammed should have been in the classroom, the two brothers sat idle at home in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The 10-year-old twins are part of a generation ...