In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...

History books love their perfect paintings, but reality looked a little rougher. Thanks to digital reconstructions, we're ...

W hen America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect ...

Although it was a year of intense fighting, much that mattered in 1776 happened away from the front lines of combat. The full ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

Informal tours of the Historic Ely Cemetery and the persons interned there will be held after a ceremony on Veterans Day.

There’s a new exhibit at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, “The Declaration’s Journey,” and yes, of ...

Every school child learns the mythology of Paul Revere's ride. Though the truth is murkier, the story has inspired ...

The scene illustrates as well as anything the problem of trying to write a history of that endlessly fascinating but ...