For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

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 ...

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

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

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

In 1757, a full generation before the American Revolution, British soldiers in Albany, New York—the main military staging area for the French and Indian War—demanded that the local sheriff open up his ...

Few figures did more to build modern Canada than William Van Horne. The irrepressible railroad executive drove the laying of the ribbons of steel that brought commerce and settlement to the West, ...

I've spent years testing cameras and photographing fireworks. These are the tips I rely on for photos that actually do the moment justice.

A powerful figure in the music industry, Clive Davis is credited with launching the careers of some of its biggest stars.

In the second season of “Sugar,” Colin Farrell’s character has to deal with life alone. At the end of the first season, it ...

Here’s what you should know about consumer fireworks and how to safely celebrate this Fourth of July. Every year around Independence Day, 10,000 to 15,000 people go to the emergency room with ...