united states history

The author of "American Nations" returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought…

A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Lepore,…

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right…