Few figures did more to build modern Canada than William Van Horne. The irrepressible railroad executive drove the laying of ...

On the 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this much is clear: Americans are united in believing that ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

Canada likes to present itself as a nation with its own clean, separate identity — but many of its most distinctive ethnic communities were shaped by events that happened in or around the United ...

That assertion may come as a surprise to people in the United States ahead of its 250th anniversary. The common narrative is fixated upon 1776, the 13 rebelling Colonies and the bold military actions ...

Forget Lexington. Forget Bunker Hill. The first battle of the American Revolution — the one that made revolution possible, although not inevitable — was James Wolfe’s posthumous triumph on the Plains ...

What if we hadn’t listened to the fiery blandishments of the slightly unhinged agitator Sam Adams, who called the free citizens of Boston “tributary slaves”? Suppose we had just paid those annoying ...

Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...

The Catholic Church in the United States in 1776 was so tiny that it didn’t play a major role in the American Revolution—but ...