While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally changed the name of their new nation to the “United States of America,” rather than the “United Colonies,” which was in regular use at ...

Robert Remini talked about his book [A Short History of the United States] (Harper; October 7, 2008). The historian of the United States House of Representatives presents a history of the United ...

A history of the United States does not lend itself to such treatment, and the author is too sound a scholar and too sincere an artist to attempt, it.