The document is among 25 surviving poster-sized editions printed by John Dunlap and posted in public meeting places on the ...

This story originally appeared in the July 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. The War of 1812 is often overlooked, especially ...

With Napoleon focused on Russia, Wellington saw his moment. At Salamanca, he delivered a crushing blow that changed the ...

Troops from New England captured a French colonial fortress. Military setbacks in Europe forced them to give it back.

Explore the Museum of the American Revolution and discover the significance of the original Declaration of Independence ...

Capt. Hugh P. Boon of Pennsylvania served in the U.S. Army from 1861 to 1865. His descendants recently gave his Medal of Honor to Bill Given.

In 1904, the Daughters of the American Revolution commemorated the peace council between General William Henry Harrison and the Native American chiefs by placing a boulder with a bronze plaque at the ...

Yet, in truth, satire—at least satire of great quality—lives just as long as any other kind of art. It keeps its objects ...

Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of ...

Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily -- undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of ...