After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne on Dec. 11, 1936.

In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the ...

A couple of hundred people gathered on Friday inside Cooper Union’s Great Hall, a room steeped in American civic memory that ...

International travelers headed to the U.S. may soon have to provide five years of social media history to enter the country.

Shows of John Singer Sargent, Jack Whitten and other master artists make our critics’ list of the best museum exhibitions of the year.

Stacker compiled a list of seven moments where Asian American and Black American solidarity paved the way for broad-stroke ...

By Jeffrey Schulman Carolina Journal Americans have navigated centuries of controversy over tariffs, taxes and many other issues dividing our nation today. The fact that only 19 percent of colleges ...

Birthright citizenship belongs only to U.S.-born children of parents who, like the freed slaves, owe this nation their ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from countries with visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit five years ...

The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy.

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...