Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow has written a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and...

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS BORN AN INHABITANT OF MASSACHUSETTS JULY 11, 1767, DIED A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE...

Exposing your private life to scrutiny is the price you pay for political power in America. And, what we demand...

For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his...

As a keen observer who has ridden history’s coat tails, this assignment to write about Candice Millard’s “The River of...

Sometimes Clara Barton defied men of military might to pass through Civil War battle lines and nurse “her” boys. She had...

In Tom Lewis’ immaculately researched history, “Washington: A History of Our National City,” we get a chronology of the people,...

The holy grail for any writer of history must surely be to create a work that advances scholarship and captivates...

Twelve decades ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright operated a bicycle repair shop in Dayton, Ohio. It was the perfect occupation...

A century ago, long before ubiquitous media saturation, the 24/7 media cycle, Facebook and Twitter, larger-than-life personalities strode across the national...

Americans have always had an understandable fascination with the Civil War, the aftershocks of which still rattle the nation. Fiction...

In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face...