In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers think if they were alive today?” For Cross, ...

I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for The American Revolution, ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill.  Republican ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Redmond, Université de Lille (THE CONVERSATION) In one of his stand-up sets, ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

The TFH Hire TA2 Muscle Car Series presented by Maritimo is the feature of the AASA-sanctioned finale that featured the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For Cross, it is pointless to speculate about the present-day views of men who could ...

That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution ... more vigorously that you not take his word for it. Paine was a student of history, and history is chock-full of ...

The disgraceful saga of ex-Prince Andrew, and the angry public reaction, have given overt and crypto-republicans a field day.