1600s
How Hooch Lubricated American Life
Besides making crops portable, cocktails like slings, flips, punches, and bounce were healthier than water
American Independence
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Colonial Cryptographers Helped Patriots Win the Revolution
After a slow start, Washington's spymasters used mathematics, chemistry, and sneakiness to turn the tide against the British
American Civil War
Audiobook Review| Violence within Congress Spurs the Civil War
Author Joanne B. Freeman recounts how Southern Democrats’ attacks on critics of slavery spilled from the Capitol building onto streets and dueling grounds
Feature Story
That Time When Jefferson Tried to Have a Supreme Court Justice Impeached
'Dangerous' Federalist Chase's 1805 trial illustrates the pitfalls of Trump ouster drive
American Independence
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: How Americans Made English a Bodacious New Language
Settlers created fresh, colorful words and phrases to describe their land and life
American Independence
This Small Battle in Vermont May Have Turned the Tide of the American Revolution
1777 American defeat in the Vermont mountains weakened the British, setting them up to lose at Saratoga
Military History
Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war
American Independence
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Founders’ Fondness for Slavery
Architects of American freedom went to great lengths to capture runaways
American Independence
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: America’s First Financial Crisis
A single rich investor's ruin led the infant United States economy into a terrible tizzy
Civil Rights
Birthright Citizenship: Who Gets to Be an American
From Dred Scott to anchor babies, 'Born in the USA' has caused hot debate
American Independence
Laws of War | A Neck for a Neck?
In 1782, just a few years into its nationhood, the United States was forced to grapple with the issue of revenge as an instrument of war
American Independence
Book Review: Gibraltar
Roy and Lesley Adkins reveal one of the most strategically important American Revolutionary War campaigns — on the far side of the Atlantic
American Independence
Book Review: Young Washington
There’s a side to George Washington few Americans know, and Peter Stark reveals it
American Independence
May 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about Washington crossing the Delaware, World War I relics, the World War II battle in the Aleutians and Braddock's Defeat
American Independence
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin: Forging Washington’s Army
The best-selling authors examine the Continental Army’s 1777–78 transformation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Figures/Biographies
Eliza Powel: George Washington’s Other Woman
First president's muse and intellectual equal was a Philadelphia socialite
