In defense of President Donald Trump, most of us know scant details about the life of George Washington. Yet that didn’t stop ...

According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...

Retired Army Lt. General Russel L. Honoré discusses his time serving the nation and the tests that our democracy is now facing. Chef Eugene Korolev and his partner Polina Sychova discuss preserving ...

The Battle of Long Island took place on Long Island, but (as most Long Islanders know) not exactly. On Aug. 27, 1776, just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, the ...

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The American ...

American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward's "The American Revolution: An Intimate History" and John ...

Confirmation that the UPS Boeing MD-11F which crashed in Louisville suffered a separation of its left-hand engine during take-off is likely to draw comparisons to the watershed McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ...