In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of ...

Cincinnati collections house books bound in human skin. The books gained the attention of John Hancock and George Washington.

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 ...

The historian Joseph J. Ellis deals honestly with America’s original sins without slandering the country or diminishing its ...

Fewer than two dozen challenges have been made in Iowa's 325 school districts since a new law made it easier for parents to ...

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 ...

This Banned Book Week, theGrio is spotlighting page-turners that have been challenged and/or banned in libraries across the U.S. Every year, Banned Books Week shines a light on the stories some people ...

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

This was never going to last. Such seemingly stable orders never do. The centuries-long history of capitalism shows that ...

NAPERVILLE, IL / ACCESS Newswire / October 17, 2025 / In the layered silence between recorded history and lived truth, some voices vanish; and others fight their way back through time. Thomas Kline, ...