10/23/2015 - 15:21
An English writer once described the tradition of christening a ship as "thoroughly heathen." As it turns out, he was right.
10/19/2015 - 08:35
The First Continental Congress, which began meeting in Philadelphia in 1774,
wasn’t the first congress to challenge British actions in the American Colonies. That distinction goes to the Stamp Act Congress, which met 250 years ago this month in New York City.
10/16/2015 - 14:30
John Brown willingly gave his life in the fight to end slavery, but he was also a killer, and some believe he was the country's first terrorist.
10/15/2015 - 07:55
After an arduous fight in World War II, the Greatest Generation returned home, only to be caught up in the equally frightening Cold War. This is the context for a new Steven Spielberg film offering a window into that intense era:
Bridge of Spies.
10/13/2015 - 19:30
Grounded in hazy dogma and an even hazier memory of elementary school, presidential candidates sometimes invoke history in the service of politics. Witness Ben Carson.
09/30/2015 - 05:30
Flapper. Just the word brings to mind images of saucy young women with short hair, lipstick, eyeliner and fringed skirts worn daringly above the knee.
09/14/2015 - 15:32
Call Thomas Jefferson the nation's third president, a statesman, an intellectual and, most of all, author of the Declaration of Independence. But he was also a slave owner, and experts believe that he fathered the children of slave Sally Hemings.
09/11/2015 - 11:15
By now, we have all memorized the details. They are part of our collective memory, filed under the category: 9/11.
09/06/2015 - 18:01
Here’s a Labor Day question: How long should workers stay on the job each day? Eight hours, right? But it wasn't always that way.
08/20/2015 - 20:37
As U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding, Albert Fall would have been relegated to the fine print of history if not for a dubious distinction -- the first American convicted of a felony committed while holding a Cabinet position.