It turns out a lot of what we learned about the founding fathers wasn’t true. Find out the top 10 biggest myths about the ...

Unlike the first democratic Greek city-states, the Roman Republic was a relatively stable government. Cicero played a large role in establishing its legal and political customs. His legal victories, ...

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 ...

Yes, they were flawed; many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence – indeed the man who wrote it – were themselves slaveholders. Yes, also: what they did in the summer of 1776 changed ...

When you think about some of the most important history lessons in the United States, learning about the Founding Fathers is among the most important. These individuals helped create a nation that, in ...

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers: An Introduction; PART I: The Bible and Culture; 2. The English ...

There has never been agreement over the meaning of America’s creation 250 years ago. Maybe there shouldn’t be. By Jia Lynn Yang Jia Lynn Yang, who wrote a history of immigration in America, was the ...