Lex Pryor

Ken Burns’s new documentary unpacks the Revolutionary War—and explains why history doesn’t repeat, even if human nature never changes.

Is the cost worth the payoff?

For nearly all of its modern existence, the Great Dismal Swamp has been excluded from U.S. history. Now there’s a push to bring its significance to light.

The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.