College Students Are Still Finding New Ways to Marginalize Jews on Campus All Hype, No Aliens Damaging Activism Returns to Cornell The Ties That Bind Us Reimagines Family Structure A careful study of ...

In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...

Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at LSU, where he earned distinction as an author of numerous works about early America. Among his credits are a well-received biography of ...

The key to Jefferson’s paradoxes, they argue, is that he gradually came to see himself as a “republican patriarch.” He reconciled his commitment to equality with his sense of personal superiority and ...

Thomas Jefferson inspires so many biographies and critiques that our impressions of him seem to fluctuate from decade to decade. His views on religion, race and government are regularly parsed, and ...

In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen. Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a biography ...

With Independence Day coming, what better time to read up on the men and women who founded and fostered our nation? Don't know where to start? We do! We've rounded up the top 10 best-selling ...