02/02/2015 - 10:19
Americans often speak of the Founding Fathers, usually fondly and frequently to show that certain political views are descendants of noble spirits we hold in high esteem. But what exactly makes someone a Founding Father?
01/22/2015 - 11:19
John Adams is remembered always as the strident patriot who pushed for American independence. But he was also tough and temperamental.
01/12/2015 - 08:05
Most people with a modest knowledge of American history know that St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the first permanent European settlement in what is now the continental United States.
12/22/2014 - 11:00
The image many Americans have of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on Dec. 25, 1776, comes from a painting that is wrong in many of the details, even if the author got the big picture exactly right.
12/11/2014 - 20:00
Beyond the fact that George Washington was the first president, he remains the most
admired man in American history. He died 215 years ago this week.
11/25/2014 - 23:55
In the wake of protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, the state’s governor called out the National Guard and, on Nov. 25, increased the number of guardsmen in the suburban city.
11/24/2014 - 10:16
The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving of 1621 was not the first Thanksgiving in America. Others occurred far earlier. But the feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts, grew to surpass all others in popular culture. This is how it happened.
11/10/2014 - 10:00
The peace agreement that ended World War I didn’t last long, but literature produced by the war has endured. Here are 10 literary luminaries
who either fought in the war or were involved in war efforts.
10/24/2014 - 09:00
Think of devastating illness and Ebola comes to mind. But in 1793 yellow fever crippled Philadelphia -- then the nation's capital and the city where the first president, George Washington, resided.
10/23/2014 - 15:07
The Rosetta mission’s Philae lander will touch down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12. When it does so, the landing site could be named by a citizen scientist.