Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Mechanical Arts & Numismatics Senior Curator Erik Goldstein provided a brief history of research into the weapons used in the fight for American independence.

Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture ...

Is Grant Wood’s famous painting "American Gothic" a celebration of Midwestern perseverance, or a mockery of a culture stuck ...

The Department of English Language ... of British or American literature from its beginnings. At least one course wholly devoted to works by Chaucer, Shakespeare or Milton, because their writing has ...

News of the UCLA course has spurred worry and criticism, but its professor is unfazed. “I feel more empowered by this process,” she says.

At the time, the Napoleonic wars were raging across Europe, and the Royal Navy had taken to seizing American sailors at sea and press-ganging them into their undermanned fleet. Already infuriated ...

Fortunately, history gives us a useful guide to policies that can be implemented to aid in that goal. A brief history of income ... 1942-1945 Internment of American Citizens of Japanese Origin ...

Over the last year, workers at 23 Wells Fargo branches have voted to establish a union, according to labor organizers. "We respect our employees' rights to vote for or against union representation, ...

English is one of the most ... fine resource for those interested in the history of English. … Highly recommended.’ E. L. Battistella Source: Choice ‘… a tour de force of writing … the research and ...

American Airlines has decided to extend its flight suspension to Haiti. The airline had originally planned to resume service to the capital, Port-au-Prince, in mid-February, but they have not ...

A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry ... His books include The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel, The Modern Latin American Novel, and The Colombian ...

The movies mentioned here are a strong starting point for anyone who wants a unique course in American history, but a deeper dive into American cinema will paint a larger, stranger, and more ...