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 ...

This past Saturday, my son and his wife invited me to go with them to a play about Thomas Paine. This was an excellent one-man show with an actor that was properly dressed, moved realistically on a ...

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

When Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, “These are the times that try men ... t believe the Federal Reserve should have cut interest ...

In March, Trump refused to rule out a third term, saying that he was “not joking” about the prospect and claiming that “there ...

Editor and publisher the Vermont Gazette Bennington. Uncompromising in defense of freedom of the press. Imprisoned in 1800 ...

The president with delusions of empire is building a new Versailles and using the military as his own personal hit squad.

And it also follows that Disney’s California Adventure Park would update its Soarin’ Around the World attraction to Soarin’ ...

The phrase appeals more to several demographics that strongly align with Trump, says Republican strategist Frank Luntz, including older voters, for whom he suggests it signals "a more simple past." ...