As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, residents don't have to travel to Boston or Philadelphia to experience ...

Florida has long had a reputation for independence. But during the American Revolution, the land that is part of the ...

Nina Becht tells PEOPLE that after moving into her 1905 Colonial, a hidden staircase and other historic details changed how ...

This historic recognition corrects a century-old omission of South Asian colonial soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice ...

The idea of river agency is not new, but we are unfamiliar with it because human agency dominates our knowledge practices; as ...

There is a particular kind of audacity that only a former colonial power can manufacture with a straight face. Reform UK, the British political party that has been steadily converting English anxiety ...

Most people don’t realize just how far American territory stretches across the globe. From a 16th-century walled city in the ...

History came alive on the grounds of the Bennington Battle Monument, when the town kicked off the Independence Day and 250th ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

Time capsule buried during 1976 Bicentennial opened at Colonial Fort Condé ...

Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert looks beyond the cities to the coffee and cotton that fuelled a global market.

Musquito’s life and death can be read through the lens of a history of invasion and resistance. Or of the difficulties of ...