Was Richard Nixon a chess player? That's one of many insignificant questions that will join the significant inquiries as I read through ...

Alexis de Tocqueville was sent to the United States by the French government in 1831 and spent nine months traveling through the young natio...

The Lee Resolution is the first of “100 Milestone Documents” presented online by the National Archives and Records Administration. This site...

A literary artifact in honor of Columbus Day. In this passage from a Brazilian novel of a century ago, the protagonist reflects on the memor...

Historians are dull people; they can kill a conversation with a fact. Robert Littlewood It is impossible to verify the quotation above. Bob ...