This interactive map of demographic change in the early American South does just this. It was created by the University of ...

The history of the United States is such, though, that many of its towns and cities have simply been given names honoring other towns and cities elsewhere in the world—more often than not the home ...

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize ...

We invited McCauley to tell us about a more recent artifact he and a friend plucked from the bottom of Lake Washington on a ...