James Carville wants the Democratic Party of old to return. But David Hogg, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, wants the opposite.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...