The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.

On the 250th anniversary of Bunker Hill, it’s worth revisiting the horrors and anxieties of the conflict that birthed America ...

Take yourself back to Charles and Camilla’s 2005 wedding with a trip to Windsor Guildhall, which is also home to the ...

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Officials with DeKalb County Public Library (DCPL) said they are launching the largest summer reading challenge in the ...

Indeed, as Greg Grandin demonstrates in his excellent new book ... American colonies won independence by the 1830s. [ The Color of Family: History, Race and the Politics of Ancestry: Academic page ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...

If you’re here you probably don’t need any more reasons to read history, but here are a couple anyway. The best history books help us understand ... both in page length (more than 1,300 ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly said that the book "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" detailed the Wampanoag tribe's encounters with Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims.

In all my photographs, I'm trying to include pages that should be in American history books that have been omitted. His photos were used by the New York Times, Time magazine and the Associated ...