It was a cold January morning in colonial Philadelphia. The year was 1793 and Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Adams, and ...

The jury trial is a cornerstone of democratic governance and a vital protection against government overreach, and its ...

America is celebrating its 250th birthday this year — marking 2½ centuries since the signing of the Declaration of ...

Ted Widmer, a historian, is the author of the forthcoming book “The Living Declaration: A Biography of America’s Founding ...

The roster features Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Donald Trump. From the ...

Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna was sworn in on this day in 1898. McKenna’s Oyez biography notes that, although he studied law before beginning a political career, he was […] The post ...

Legendary actor/producer/director Warren Beatty was born in Richmond and went to high school in Arlington at what was then ...

Maybe Harrisburg’s connections to the Revolutionary War aren’t obvious. No battles raged here. No signers of the Declaration ...

I had been trawling absent-mindedly through the ABC's internal digital archive in a vague search for inspiration and clicked ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will host a Jan. 24 screening.

America has made a larger contribution to the history of music than any other nation, writes Richard Morrison... no really!