History

TOKYO — Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, who were buried in a 19th century ...

Artist Heide Presse paints mid-19th-century American life as authentically as she can. Farmers, homesteaders, and pioneers are a ...

Valentine’s Day is once again upon us, and for loved ones who find themselves separated by distance, there’s ...

If we look at his early life, George Washington (1732–1799) appears an unlikely candidate to lead an army ...

It would be hard to imagine a more fitting name for what would be required of that undisciplined ...

With his men’s enlistments expiring in one week, Washington had no choice but to risk everything on a ...

PARIS—The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there's a "50 ...

As George Washington stated in his presidential farewell address, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to ...

An unexpected miracle took place along the killing fields of Belgium and France, all because the men shared ...

Charles Dickens is largely responsible for our idea of Christmas today, more than 170 years after he published ...

Tim Travis, curator of prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, shares in an email about ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, it's a good time to recall the nation’s first wall, built by the Pilgrims.

For Lincoln, Thanksgiving was always intended as a day of national self-reflection—on both the blessings, and the curses, ...

"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is ...

Most of us know Sir Winston Churchill’s very public persona—a man of great charisma, achievements, and vision. Chartwell ...

NEW YORK—Those who remain enchanted by the notion of chivalry and the medieval rules of knighthood will find ...

American-born Jennie Jerome Churchill and her British husband Lord Randolph would never qualify for any Best Parent of ...

For sheer symbolism and the most glaring contrast between the evil of communism and the virtue of the ...

Ignorance may be bliss, but it can also be downright embarrassing. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump met ...

The last few decades have witnessed the rise of helicopter moms—mothers who hover over their children—taking an often ...

Sometimes we are blessed with not one, but two mothers whose care and affection shape our lives. Abraham ...

On battlefields around the world, soldiers have cried out for their mothers as they lay dying. And memorably, ...

The Black Bat Squadron was a covert flying unit with a dangerous mission and a high death-rate. An ...

Only 37 percent of high school students can recite one of the rights in the First Amendment.

If you take a look around Aachen, you'll see signs of Charlemagne everywhere. It may be a literal ...

In August 1619, a privateer docked at Point Comfort near Jamestown, Virginia. In exchange for food and supplies, ...