George Washington

What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?

The Founders feared democracy and didn't think too highly of "the people".

American portraiture with its visual allure and pictorial storytelling made gun ownership desirable.

That's the conclusion of a psychology study published in the journal Sciece.

On 400 Years of Tribalism, Genocide, Expulsion, and Imprisonment.

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.

In 1752, the Brits and Americans lopped 11 days off the calendar in one fell swoop.

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.

Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.

Seventy-eight years ago, protesters and white supremacists clashed outside of Madison Square Garden.

For decades, the military made sure soldiers had access to the treat—including spending $1 million on a floating ice-cream factory.

The blurred line between boyhood and manhood.

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.

A nation divided, even at birth.

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

A collection of photos of American Nazis – and the Americans who took a stand against them.

A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.