Resilience, not ease, has been the defining feature of our national story. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th ...
Historian Rick Atkinson stated in a recent talk that Americans tend to view the American Revolution through a kind of rosy haze. In Fate of the Day: The American War for Independence, Atkinson lays ...
Presents a timeline of American history from 1500 to the current decade, with images from the collections and exhibitions of the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.