ON SEPT. 3, 1783 three American diplomats, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, and their British counterpart, David ...

A few white colonists, publicly noted the paradox between the patriots' demands for liberty and the widespread acceptance of slavery. James Otis called the slave trade "the most shocking violation ...

I recently made a pilgrimage to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., to see the United States Constitution — the one that George Washington and 38 other Founders signed with a goose quill ...

To this day we have better maps of Venus, Mars, and the far side of the moon than we do of much of underwater America. But now it’s time for a new epic journey. Last June the United States ...

An English sailor, having just served on George Weymouth's exploratory voyage to the territory that would become Maine, publishes an account of a Native American whale hunt. Fastening harpoon ...

How safe is the United States? Threats to our safety come in many different forms, from natural disasters to violent crime. Preliminary evidence from the National Safety Council has estimated that ...

Author David Gendell shares an excerpt from the newly released book, "The Last Days of the Schooner America: A Lost Icon at ...

OAKLAND, Calif.—It was another NFL Sunday at what was once the most famous sports bar in the country, and upon first glance it was like nothing had changed. A souped-up Escalade adorned with ...

Our 50 favorite places in America right now. We have finished our annual search for America’s best restaurants. Over the last 12 months, reporters and editors traveled to nearly every state ...

A group calling itself the Free Land Holders is building a fence around a swath of U.S. Forest Service land outside Mancos, ...

Regina Jackson and Saira Rao achieved a degree of fame at the height of the backlash in 2020 after police killed George Floyd, an unarmed black American accused of buying cigarettes with a ...

There have been at least 73,452,000 reported infections and 1,713,000 reported deaths caused by the novel coronavirus in Latin America and the Caribbean so far. Of every 100 infections last ...