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On Sept. 30, 1941, Thomas Jefferson’s great-great grandson joined six other men for a private meeting at a Washington art gallery. The... Read More

The rule that no president can serve more than two full terms became part of the U.S. Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D.... Read More

Kamala Harris' memoir reveals Biden's team seems to have forgotten the most important thing about running mates. Read More

He found the Third Reich leaders all sane. Read More

When U.N. forces famously stormed ashore at Inchon on September 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur’s gamble set in motion a rapid advance... Read More

The British Expeditionary Force enjoyed a “holiday” in France during the Phony War, but the day of reckoning came on May 10, 1940 at... Read More

The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare program. Japan's... Read More

The Potsdam Conference, held from 17 July to 2 August 1945 in Potsdam in eastern Germany, decided how the Allies would deal with a defeated... Read More

Richard Burton, born 100 years ago this month, was famously married - twice - to Elizabeth Taylor. In 1966, a BBC interview with them saw a... Read More

John Maynard Keynes’s prescient warning Read More

Scotland’s short-lived, catastrophic Central American colony exposed its precarious relationship with England. Was closer union an... Read More

This past Friday was Halloween and we here at HR&R hope that everyone had a spooky holiday, with the familiar parade of bats, ghosts, and... Read More

Here are some of the most severe droughts in American history and their impact on the country’s landscape, economy, and approach to water... Read More

Holding More than Virtue in Common Read More

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More

Pumpkins, trick or treating and ghost stories are what we associate with Halloween, but what about turnips, fairies and a fortune-telling... Read More

Zara Anishanslin joins us to uncover the hidden world of artists, artisans, and makers who painted, stitched, and crafted the Revolution into... Read More

Did the Trojan War – the ten year, cosmic clash between the Greeks and the Trojans, featuring the Olympian gods, kings and heroes... Read More

The word "genocide" can seem like it’s everywhere right now: So it can be easy to forget that, fundamentally, it's a legal term that... Read More

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No,... Read More

The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the tribunal to ask... Read More

How Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due. Read More

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his version of a... Read More

Before it became home to the U.S. Military Academy, the perch on the Hudson River was the most important strategic po... Read More

Navy saw a need for beach landings in WWII, it began an elite Special Warfare force. Read More

From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to... Read More

Inside the glass were cheerful letters written in pencil by Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated Aug. 15, 1916. Read More

Over the course of four years, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spoke with dozens of elite military personnel about misconduct in... Read More

By the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 Britain had become a global power. However, the conflict’s colossal expense and the... Read More

The government has shut down 21 times since 1977, and Congress is still breaking records for the longest fiscal standoffs. Read More

From the Trail of Tears to Watergate to the Iraq War, here are 20 of the worst presidential mistakes in US history — and what actually... Read More

U.S. elections are generally decided at the ballot box. Occasionally, there are elections where things run so close that it Read More

In 1974, the U.S. tried staying on daylight saving time all year. The result was darker mornings and public panic. Read More

John Maynard Keynes’s prescient warning Read More

“I Have Loved You” is the English translation of Pope Leo XIV’s exhortation to almsgiving. But what does it mean to love... Read More

See iconic images of the Statue of Liberty from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Read More

The classical world boasted many sophisticated civilizations, ruled from impressive cities. Discover the 10 most impressive ancient cities... Read More

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More