There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

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 ...

Rodney Atkinson, who has died aged 78, was a banker, entrepreneur and political economist who narrowly lost the contest to become leader of the UK Independence Party in 2000; he acknowledged with ...

This weekend marks the United States of America's 250th birthday, so why not celebrate or commiserate with the best July 4th ...

Supreme Court rulings, culture-war politics and renewed nativism reveal a republic still wrestling with the question of who ...

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.

"It was a good run, but as 'Best and Last' reminds us, all good things come to an end," Bruce Miller writes in his review.

A fishing trip of the California coast last week produced an extraordinary catch: a type of octopus that constructs its own shell to ride ocean currents.