The True History of the American Revolution

Today in Supreme Court History: October 9, 1954

Today in Supreme Court History: October 7, 1982

Today in Supreme Court History: October 8, 1888

Misrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustice

The Most American Statue in Europe

I'm Italian American, but I Don't Celebrate Columbus Day.

Is a 600-page history of the British novel a monument to a dying form? If so, it's a joyous one

Generational analysis is almost always nonsense," says Leon Wieseltier. No one told Yale's Kent Professor of Law and History

A Survey of Crime Experts Deflates the 'Trump Effect' That Supposedly Reduced Homicides

Judge Says Warrantless Flock Search Violated Driver's Fourth Amendment Rights

The Rebirth of History and the Last Man

An American Masterpiece

A History of the Novel in Britain

Ig Nobel hosts science’s silliest ceremony outside U.S. for first time

Sino-American Stability Without Trust

The 'World's Oldest' Bartender's Very Illegal Basement Bar

Oppressed and Oppressor

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

You Call This Living?

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently