For much of American history, the right to a jury meant a right to 12 jurors. The 12-juror requirement was inherited from ...

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have ...

Long before Facebook, Instagram, the internet, and other forms of social media, getting news and information out to the ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, protestors in Boston boarded a British ship and dumped tea into the harbor. A similar event happened in ...

The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First ...

Pennsylvania’s State Museum is getting the celebration started early for America’s 250th birthday. A new exhibit, ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

When I interviewed the editors in August, I knew I wanted to read “A Continued Clap of Thunder,” published this fall by the ...

In 2021, the American Association for State and Local History asked communities across the country to start thinking about ...

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

The Swiss National Museum Zurich exhibition, which examined Switzerland’s colonial entanglements, is over. But it will be on ...