American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility.
The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.
Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.
While the American Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her, too. It took 80 years and a far-more-terrible war to confirm the rights that she had demanded.
He didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.
A century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.