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 ...

If there was ever a place where one could truly understand American exceptionalism it is at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s ...

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.

HBO's acclaimed miniseries John Adams, starring Paul Giamatti, delves into the passionate and flawed second U.S. President ...