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Americans treated the Declaration as a relic…until these leaders reclaimed it Read More

The Time Capsule Act, a 2016 law creating the nonpartisan America250 commission mandated that a time capsule be buried in Philadelphia on... Read More

Competing viewpoints over the direction of the nascent republic manifested in partisan Independence Day festivities during the late 18th... Read More

From George Washington to Jackie Robinson, these 12 figures represent conflict, courage, failure, ambition, and change in American history.... Read More

A visitor standing at the intersection of D’Evereux Drive and Liberty Road today would find little reason to linger. Cars pass through... Read More

Liberty—a word and ideal most closely associated with the Declaration of Independence—came at extraordinary human cost. The... Read More

Shouting “King George and Broadswords” a contingent of 600 Highlander-Americans clad in traditional Scottish Tartan charged... Read More

Eager to end the agony at Valley Forge, General George Washington broke camp in the spring of 1778 and began following the British army from... Read More

Historians often downplay the significance of Roman slavery, but it was the engine of the empire's economy. Read More

The Maginot Line was an extensive series of fortifications built by France through the 1930s to protect its eastern borders from German... Read More

Traditionally depicted as a child-murderer, usurper, and arch-villain, have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded, or is he still one of... Read More

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Randall Fowler to discuss his work on presidential rhetoric and U.S.... Read More

Hawaiian mythology is rich enough without embellishing (or sanitizing) it at the expense of the truth. Read More

Thousands of forgotten news reports are reshaping our understanding of Aurangzeb and the Mughal world. Read More

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

What really made a royal bastard, and could illegitimacy be a path to power as much as a barrier?Dr Eleanor Janega is joined by Lauren... Read More

Sara Georgini and Eliga Gould reveal how John Adams designed the Model Treaty to win the American Revolution. Read More

Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson explore the origin story of the British love of tea. Read More

Few places on Earth remain as mysterious and inaccessible as North Sentinel Island. Deep in the Bay of Bengal and surrounded by tropical... Read More

To link the original 13 colonies with territories to the west, American politicians and engineers made bold plans for a long-distance... Read More

From its design and construction to its famous rooms, gardens and renovations, these books trace the history of the W... Read More

These beloved toys helped inspire Pixar’s groundbreaking animated classic. Read More

Dragons may be fictional, but the struggle for the throne, influence and legitimacy in House of the Dragons has roots in conflicts that... Read More

In segregated twentieth-century Natchez, Mississippi, power wore predictable faces: white, male, and respectable, at least on paper. Yet one... Read More

A partisan judiciary, arbitrary power, officials beyond the reach of the people – these are the grievances that drove a revolution. Read More

After weeks of sluggish progress phase two of the D-Day invasion opened up a rapid advance toward Germany. Read More

The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate exactly how the... Read More

Continental Congress called for two national fasting days in the year before America declared independence.   Read More

Classical liberals and libertarians around the world, particularly in the past century, have had a difficult time acclimatizing to the... Read More

Tracing a line from Glasgow to Philadelphia Read More

Continental Army soldier John Pumphrey enlisted as a teenager in 1777 and fought at significant battles before his death in action against... Read More

In 1837, the Supreme Court decided New York v. Miln. The 6-1 vote solidified the right of states to regulate migration via passenger laws. Read More

The expansion of the United States in the mid-19th century had a catastrophic effect on the Native Americans of the Great Plains. Read More

The Allies met in several conferences from 1941 to 1945 to discuss how to guarantee a more peaceful and cooperative world once the Second... Read More

The author's childhood was rocked by bankruptcy and deceit. In 2008, he told the BBC that his "hectic background" trained him to be an author... Read More

The excavation of the ancient city of Ur revealed wealthy, powerful rulers. There’s a compelling case they were actually women. Read More

Loathed for her extravagance, the former French queen's final words showed a different side to her character. Read More

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