As part of the ongoing celebration of the birth of the United States 250 years ago and the sacrifices that soldiers made to create the United ...

In June of 1752, with some sources specifically saying the tenth of June, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous experiment of drawing ...

In honor of Anne Royall’s birthday (June 11, 1769), author Jack Kelly shares with The History Reader her story as one of the pioneering female ...

We covered Trump’s executive order on American history here. Today at The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight offers his ...

Donald Trump recently released a new executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Let’s break it down.Trump writes:By the ...

Review of ‘Area 51’ by Annie Jacobsen Annie Jacobsen’s “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base” is ...

Paul Revere is most well-known for his extraordinary midnight ride, in which he alerted the countryside to take arms against British soldiers. ...

Paul Revere is most well-known for his extraordinary midnight ride, in which he said, “The British are coming! The British are coming.” Fewer ...

To the disbelief of gaping onlookers in the packed stands at El Toreo, Mexico City’s largest bullring, American rodeo performer Bill Pickett clung ...

Herbert O. Yardley was being followed. He knew it, as much as he knew something was off when a beautiful woman struck up a ...