Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.

Pope Formosus was charged with being unworthy of the pontificate, of violating canon law, of perjury, and of serving as a ...

In Burns’ portrayal of the Revolution, LGBTQ people are not only erased but defamed, reduced to a caricatured trope instead of being recognized as real participants in shaping our country’s history.

The Dedication, directed by Adrienne Lunson, took home the top honor and a $1,000 grant. The short is a Japanese adaptation of the Stephen King short story about a housekeeper whose son writes a ...

Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous, as he originally assumed ...

One of WWII’s most bizarre and unexpected battles took place at Castle Itter in May 1945. In this dramatic clash, American troops and Wehrmacht soldiers—former enemies—fought side by side against the ...

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

The institutional memory of pre-colonial African governance systems has suffered from both scholarly neglect and wilful ...

The House is set to vote next week on a bipartisan bill calling for the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files. This comes as the federal government is working to get back on ...

President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and ...

Why do Chicago and Illinois celebrate a Revolutionary War hero from Poland who never set foot anywhere near the state and ...