The Confederate monuments that are coming down across the United States have once again ignited a generations-old American argument. Though the idea that the war was really about the “noble cause” of ...

Renée Graham is correct about the power of keeping people ignorant about slavery (“How white supremacy weaponizes ignorance,” Opinion, June 16). One of the most important books about the effect of ...

The Revolutionary War's Battle of Camden did not go well for the Continental Army or its patriot militias. Following France's entry into the war on the American side, the British subdued its unruly ...

Merritt is a political historian at Vanderbilt University. He writes the Substack newsletter American Commonwealth and is the author of prize-winning history book, Disunion Among Ourselves: The ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

Instead of simply memorizing the names of the 13 original colonies of what would become the United States, Rose Kana, U.S. history teacher at Stephen F. Austin Middle School, expects her students to ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American rebels that British troops were ...