The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and ...

Experience Butler County PA reports on Pennsylvania's rich German heritage, spotlighting historic towns like Harmony, ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

Some food traditions are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African American chefs have largely been ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

The British Empire outlawed slavery in 1833. Slave-catchers could brazenly pursue freedom seekers into northern states that ...

Declaration of Independence was signed. The Museum of the American Revolution is gearing up for the celebration.

Philip Hensher I have a theory that Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels are an ingenious variation on Shakespeare’s Henry ...

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. reflects on his ancestry, slavery’s legacy, and economic inequality in a candid Club Shay Shay interview, blending humor and history while promoting his new memoir The Man of ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...