Few figures did more to build modern Canada than William Van Horne. The irrepressible railroad executive drove the laying of ...

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

In the second season of “Sugar,” Colin Farrell’s character has to deal with life alone. At the end of the first season, it ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

A federal filing shows President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, locking in ...

A new sneak peek at Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner's new graphic novel, Liberty, revisits an unsung, deeply human Revolutionary War story.

The Supreme Court rules that the 14th Amendment requires all children born within the United States to automatically qualify ...

The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting ...