Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns joins TODAY to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States and looks back on the ...

The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

Faced with a dire job market, falling wages and endless competition, many young Chinese are recreating scenes from the early ...

Fourth of July streaming spikes revive classic patriotic films as audiences seek history, nostalgia and Americana.

In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, University of Chicago Law School professor Curtis Bradley explains why ...

Some of the generals and politicians egging the soldiers on hoped that George Washington would take up his men's cause and in ...

“Our founders did worry a lot about the future emergence of a demagogue,” Chernow said. “Their fear was what used to be ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

The 1990s were a transitional period for both the television industry and the broader science fiction genre. Throughout the ...

The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to curb birthright citizenship on Monday, ...