An American man has visited Manchester for the first time and shared his honest thoughts on the city, including its architecture, people and the Mancunian accent ...

By Richard Robbins Not often does a magazine edition come along that begs both reading and keeping. In the dusty archives of my home work room are several such numbers: A Life and a Look, both devoted ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump over the past nine months. In recent years, the conservative justices on t ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, History Cambridge co-hosts “Washington in American Memory,” a seven-part speaker series running ...

Before civilian statutes and corporate hotlines, two young Rhode Island naval officers in 1777 risked career and liberty to expose war-time misconduct. They became America’s first whistle-blowers, and ...

History is a complex web of triumph, tragedy, and change, but it isn’t immune to the threads of misinformation and misconceptions. There are “facts” that are often passed down through generations and ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has long been a chronicler of the American experience. He talks with John Dickerson about his latest film for PBS, "The American Revolution"; the importance of studying ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution unfolds across six nights, tracing how Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley helped turn ...

But history has made him the lead actor in the drama ... villa of Monticello and began writing a secret document that could have forestalled the American Revolution — but which instead laid groundwork ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards. The thieves exited as they entered, through a window, fleeing with nearly all ...

A new exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution, The Declaration’s Journey, traces the history of the Declaration of Independence.