On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a ...

As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War. America was halfway ...

Karnish takes literally what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “all men are created equal.” But to assume that the ...

The victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York brings to mind the election of Barack Obama as US president in 2008. Whether voters will one day look back on Mamdani with the same misgivings they have for ...

As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief ...

The 15th-century Bible, commissioned by Duke Borso D'Este, is rarely seen in public. It was transported to Rome under heavy ...

Led by Israel’s Yad Vashem, the initiative has been underway since the 1950s. But it recently got a boost from artificial intelligence, which is helping humans search through the records The show ...

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

Matthew Macfadyen delivers a career-best turn in Death by Lightning, a darkly comic yet haunting retelling of the Garfield assassination that becomes as much a study of delusion as of a doomed preside ...