Given all the noise and bizarre action emanating from Washington since Jan. 20, a look back at key documents from American history may provide some guidance about what our national principles should ...

In our modern age, we have convinced ourselves that we are so advanced, so enlightened, that the lessons of the past no longer apply to us. We act as though history is an outdated relic—something for ...

The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the American ...

Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in ...