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 ...

In 1757, a full generation before the American Revolution, British soldiers in Albany, New York—the main military staging ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, a growing political movement isn’t just sitting out the party but actively working to tear down the constitutional system. It’s not a “both-sides” issue: a ...