Some historical events are self-evidently a pretty big deal. The kind of happenings you don’t need context and a broad understanding of history to know sent shockwaves through the world. Sometimes ...

Image Credit: Photo Credit: Unknown author - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. October tends to get a lot of attention for pumpkin patches, Halloween costumes, and the gradual shift to cooler weather, but ...

History rarely unfolds in neat, isolated chapters. Sometimes, events that seem unrelated actually overlap in astonishing ways, creating coincidences that defy expectation. From political upheavals to ...

Most of us probably did not notice that Lou Conter died on April 2 in California. Lou was the last survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. The notice gave me pause. There are fewer ...

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...